butchery
noun
[ ˈbʊtʃəri ]
• the work of slaughtering animals and preparing them for sale as meat.
Similar:
meat selling,
meat retailing,
• the savage killing of large numbers of people.
• "the rebellions ended in butchery and defeat"
Origin:
Middle English (denoting a slaughterhouse or meat market): from Old French boucherie, from bouchier ‘butcher’.
