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slaughterhouse
[ slaw-ter-hous ]
noun
- a building or place where animals are butchered for food; abattoir.
slaughterhouse
/ ˈslɔːtəˌhaʊs /
noun
- a place where animals are butchered for food; abattoir
Word History and Origins
Origin of slaughterhouse1
Example Sentences
A data journalist followed the DNA trail to slaughterhouses.
They used rumen fluid from a slaughterhouse in Austria and tested its microorganisms against three types of plastics in powder and film form.
“Due to the large amount of rumen that accumulates every day in slaughterhouses, upscaling would be easy to imagine,” Ribitsch said.
It also means less demand for animal products at a time when prices are high, animal welfare is ignored, and Congress is investigating coronavirus outbreaks at slaughterhouses.
The building closed in 1933 for improvements, according to the application, before sustaining damage in a fire and permanently closing as Congress sought to eliminate slaughterhouses in the District.
He was also able to visit a slaughterhouse for the first time.
And played with the wide eyes of actress Taylor Schilling, Piper was like Bambi being thrown into the slaughterhouse.
He plans to then get a new horse that likely would otherwise be bound for the slaughterhouse.
In one slaughterhouse sample of 150 horses, 40 percent needed more than one shot, sometimes collapsing only to rise again.
The detectives detained Chen and went inside to discover a home that had been turned to a slaughterhouse with a meat cleaver.
This must be done before leaving the slaughterhouse, otherwise the serum will be stained with hæmoglobin.
The streets in this vicinity were literally a slaughterhouse.
The road runs between the vast slaughterhouse, the cattle market and the huts used as an army storehouse.
Delicately nurtured girls could be seen working at the slaughterhouse among the entrails and offal for twelve hours on end.
Jack, holding his nose, for the stench of the slaughterhouse was terrible, advanced to see what it was.
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