slaughterhouse
- a building or place where animals are butchered for food; abattoir.
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Contemporary Examples of slaughterhouse
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.
Historical Examples of slaughterhouse
It nailed Perry between the eyes, like a slaughterhouse bolt.
MakersCory Doctorow
The streets in this vicinity were literally a slaughterhouse.
The InvasionWilliam Le Queux
See here, seorito, are you going to the slaughterhouse to skin something?
MaximinaArmando Palacio Valds
The whole business reminded me of cattle being taken to the slaughterhouse.
Why don't they kill their beef in a slaughterhouse and give them the meat, instead of turning the animals over to them alive?
Ted Strong in MontanaEdward C. Taylor
slaughterhouse
- a place where animals are butchered for food; abattoir