Butcher

A butcher is someone who prepares various Meat s and other related goods for sale. Many butchers sell their goods through private stores, but nowadays, most meat is sold through supermarkets.

''See also'': Slaughterhouse

OTHER IDIOMATIC USES

Butcher is also an English term used to describe a person who inflicts cuts and incisions in an unorderly manner - contrary to the surgeon-like exactness a professional butcher needs to slaughter cattle.

Butcher is well-known as being the family name of descendants of professional butchers; akin to "Baker" and "Carpenter".

Butcher (old, informal) a person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, Circuses , etc.

Butcher is also the name for a 200ml glass of beer in South Australia

Butchers A Cockney Rhyming Slang term for a look, popularized by the Zafira advert

Butcher differs from meatcutter (or Meat Cutter) in that the former specializes in the slaughter of animals, as well as the removal of innards (evisceration), in order to prepare a carcass for the processing of retail cuts. The latter specializes in processing eviscerated carcasses and boxed meat (primals and sub-primals) into retail cuts for sale in specialty shops or supermarkets.

PEOPLE KNOWN AS "THE BUTCHER"

Various people in history have gained the Epithet "The Butcher", usually as a result of "butchering" the population of a given city or area. Examples include:

The Butcher of the Somme was an epithet given to Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig as a result of his tactics during World War I

Ali Hassan Al-Majid gained the name The Butcher of Kurdistan after his actions during the Al-Anfal Campaign

Due to his involvement in The Holocaust in Czechoslovakia , Reinhard Heydrich was commonly referred to as The Butcher of Prague

Both Michael O'Dwyer and General Reginald Edward Harry Dyer became known as the Butchers of Amritsar following their actions during the Amritsar Massacre

The Bloody Butcher was a nickname for The Duke Of Cumberland , second son of George II Of England . So called from his barbarities in suppressing the rebellion of the Young Pretender

The Royalist Butcher was a nickname for Blaise De Montluc , distinguished for his cruelties to the Protestants in the reign of Charles IX Of France

Bill the Butcher was a pseudonym taken by gang-member William Poole , on whom the fictional character William "Bill The Butcher" Cutting of Martin Scorsese 's 2002 film '' Gangs Of New York '' is largely based

Rodolfo Fierro received the name '''El Carnicero''' aka '''The Butcher''' as well. He was known to be the right-hand general to Pancho Villa

'''Butcher'' is a Progressive Thrash Metal band from Brazil (Belo Horizonte, MG - Cogumelo Records). {Link without Title}

The Butcher was one of the many Gimmicks used by Professional Wrestler Edward Leslie .

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