Butcher

Webster's Practical Dictionary- A Practical Dictionary of the Englih Language · 1884 · p. 61

buch^er, re. One who slaughters animals for food '; one who kills cruelly; one given to slaughter. — v. t. [butchered (-erd), -eking.] To kill, as animals, for food; to murder, esp. barbarously.— Butcb/ery, -er-T, re. Busine of a butcher; great slaughter; ma acre.