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slaughterer|ˈslɔːtərə(r)|
[f. slaughter v.]
1. One who slaughters or kills.
1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, ii. v. 109 Thou do'st then wrong me, as yt slaughterer doth, Which giueth many Wounds, when one will kill. c1611Chapman Iliad xiii. 593 At his slaughterers Incensed Paris spent a lance. 1679C. Ness Antichrist 191 Nations all that time warring against those slaughterers. 1864Burton Scot Abroad II. i. 98 The slaughterers of St. Bartholomew.
b. A powerful fighter or boxer.
1896C. Doyle R. Stone xvii, I've seen Jack Harrison fight five times, and I never yet saw him have the worse of it. He's a slaughterer, and so I tell you.
2. A killer of animals; a butcher.
1648Hexham ii, Een slager der beesten, a Slaughterer. 1668R. Steele Husbandman's Calling vi. (1672) 161 The Lamb looks cheerfully on the slaughterer. 1795Southey Joan of Arc iv. 352, I saw the cattle start..And with a piteous moaning vainly seek To fly the coming slaughterers. 1828Maitland Let. to Simeon 28 One perhaps has been a singer in the synagogue;..a third, a slaughterer. 1868Standard 15 Dec. 6 The [Jewish] slaughterer is not a butcher in the accepted sense of the term. 1881Nation (N.Y.) XXXII. 428 A tremendous slaughterer of the brute creation.
3. slang. A dealer who buys from small makers at extremely low prices.
1851Mayhew Lond. Lab. I. 333 The ‘slaughterers’..buy at ‘starvation prices’.., the artificer being often kept waiting for hours. Ibid. II. 303 The slaughterer cared only to have them viewly and cheap. |