slaughterhouse

[ slaw-ter-hous ]

/ ˈslɔ tərˌhaʊs /

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noun, plural slaugh·ter·hous·es

[slaw-ter-hou-ziz]. /ˈslɔ tərˌhaʊ zɪz/.

a building or place where animals are butchered for food; abattoir.

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Origin of slaughterhouse

1325–75; Middle English slautherhus;see slaughter, house

Words nearby slaughterhouse

slattern, slatternly, slatting, slaty, slaughter, slaughterhouse, slaughterman, slaughterous, Slav, slave, slave ant

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How to use slaughterhouse in a sentence

A data journalist followed the DNA trail to slaughterhouses.
How do you track a salmonella outbreak? A data journalist followed the DNA trail to slaughterhouses.|Irena Hwang/ProPublica|November 15, 2021|Popular-Science
They used rumen fluid from a slaughterhouse in Austria and tested its microorganisms against three types of plastics in powder and film form.
Microbes found in cow stomachs could help solve our plastic problem|Sara Kiley Watson|July 13, 2021|Popular-Science
“Due to the large amount of rumen that accumulates every day in slaughterhouses, upscaling would be easy to imagine,” Ribitsch said.
Microbes found in cow stomachs could help solve our plastic problem|Sara Kiley Watson|July 13, 2021|Popular-Science
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.
Impossible Foods’ plant-based meat just got closer to the price of regular meat|Kelsey Piper|February 2, 2021|Vox

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.
Proposed historic designation for ‘forgotten’ D.C. slaughterhouse may block new halfway house|Justin Wm. Moyer|December 2, 2020|Washington Post
He was also able to visit a slaughterhouse for the first time.
The Bioethicist Turned Butcher|Elizabeth Picciuto|September 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And played with the wide eyes of actress Taylor Schilling, Piper was like Bambi being thrown into the slaughterhouse.
‘Orange Is the New Black’ Season Two Is More Bingeworthy Than the First|Kevin Fallon|May 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He plans to then get a new horse that likely would otherwise be bound for the slaughterhouse.
Central Park’s Carriages Saved This Horse|Michael Daly|April 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In one slaughterhouse sample of 150 horses, 40 percent needed more than one shot, sometimes collapsing only to rise again.
Central Park’s Carriages Saved This Horse|Michael Daly|April 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The detectives detained Chen and went inside to discover a home that had been turned to a slaughterhouse with a meat cleaver.
Brooklyn Mother, Four Children Allegedly Slain by Jealous Cousin|Michael Daly|October 28, 2013|DAILY BEAST
This must be done before leaving the slaughterhouse, otherwise the serum will be stained with hæmoglobin.
The Elements of Bacteriological Technique|John William Henry Eyre
The streets in this vicinity were literally a slaughterhouse.
The Invasion|William Le Queux
The road runs between the vast slaughterhouse, the cattle market and the huts used as an army storehouse.
Verdun Argonne-Metz 1914-1918|Anonymous
Delicately nurtured girls could be seen working at the slaughterhouse among the entrails and offal for twelve hours on end.
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1|Henry Baerlein
Jack, holding his nose, for the stench of the slaughterhouse was terrible, advanced to see what it was.
The Harlequin Opal, Vol. 2 (of 3)|Fergus Hume

British Dictionary definitions for slaughterhouse

slaughterhouse

/ (ˈslɔːtəˌhaʊs) /

noun

a place where animals are butchered for food; abattoir

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