abattoir
a slaughterhouse.
Origin of abattoir
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How to use abattoir in a sentence
Germany’s largest pork plant was shuttered for a month this summer after more than 1,000 workers tested positive for Covid-19, and additional abattoirs also faced temporary closures from outbreaks.
Europe is on high alert after a deadly swine virus emerges in Germany | Bernhard Warner | September 10, 2020 | FortuneSuch an abattoir would never be permitted to continue in the United States, or indeed the developed (and white) world.
A few weeks later the monks laid siege to a Muslim-owned abattoir in Colombo to halt the slaughter of cattle.
What Intolerant Buddhist Monks Are Doing to Sri Lanka | Kapil Komireddi | April 12, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe abattoir was being used as a distribution plant for the meat of cattle slaughtered outside the city.
What Intolerant Buddhist Monks Are Doing to Sri Lanka | Kapil Komireddi | April 12, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTA view down into the wild, Art Deco abattoir now called the 1933 Center in Shanghai.
And there is the master of our largest and goriest abattoir.
The Main Chance | Meredith NicholsonIt was only a scratch and he had been knocked down like a beef in an abattoir by an unseen enemy, on whom he could not lay hands!
The Last Shot | Frederick PalmerHave you ever seen a herd of cattle being driven to abattoir on a fine May morning?
One Man's Initiation--1917 | John Dos PassosAy—and the abattoir is far, though its perfume is nigh; it is thrice a hundred yards from hence.
Kentucky in American Letters, v. 1 of 2 | John Wilson TownsendProbably it would be hung up in some abattoir, where oxen are driven in at one end, and tinned meat taken out at the other.
Thorley Weir | E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
British Dictionary definitions for abattoir
/ (ˈæbəˌtwɑː) /
another name for slaughterhouse
Origin of abattoir
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