slaughterman
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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For The Food Chain, the BBC's Emily Thomas met a slaughterman at Tideford abbattoir, who described his approach to his work:
From BBC • Jan. 5, 2020
Characters in On Bear Ridge include a slaughterman who lives with the family and a captain who has lost his battalion "and all sense of what it is to be a human being".
From BBC • Sep. 20, 2019
Prosecuting counsel Elwen Evans QC said: "The defendant was an experienced slaughterman who knew how to use knives professionally."
From BBC • May 30, 2013
Abel, touchingly, finds worth and value in his work as a slaughterman, and in the crowded, smelly fug of the cellar dwelling he shares with dozens of transients.
From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2013
The Military Representative appealed against the exemption of William Blake, aged 35, unmarried, a slaughterman in the employment of Mr. George Rigg, pork butcher.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 16, 1917 by Various
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