shochet

[ Sephardic Hebrew shaw-khet; Ashkenazic Hebrew shoh-kheyt, shoi-khit; English shoh-khit ]

noun,plural shoche·tim [shohkh-teem], /ʃoʊxˈtim/, English sho·chets.Hebrew.

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How to use shochet in a sentence

  • Heyman, Heinrich Wilhelm David, son of a shochet (slaughterer) in poor circumstances.

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  • What exactly I proposed to do to help him, I don't know, but something drove me after the poor shochet.

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  • Even the shochet sometimes goes away for a whole week, so when should they find time to quarrel?

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  • The shochet is not at home, he has gone to a neighboring village; that is why the calf is still lowing in the house.

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  • The only people who remain to be envied are our two young men, the shochet's son with the shochet's son-in-law.

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British Dictionary definitions for shochet

shochet

/ (ˈʃɒkɛt, ˈʃɒxɛt) /


nounplural shochets or shochetim
  1. (in Judaism) a person who has been specially trained and licensed to slaughter animals and birds in accordance with the laws of shechita

Origin of shochet

1
C19: from Hebrew, literally: slaughtering

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