Noun
The business of a butcher.
Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter.
A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed.
Source: Webster's dictionaryButchery is not the point of vampirism. Sex - domination and submission - is. Camille Paglia
World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought. Ernest Hemingway
The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased. Ida B. Wells-Barnett
After the harrowing butchery in the Catholic cathedral in Nice, the city's mayor called for to stop behaving as though it was a country at peace. Source: Internet
A photograph of the Horse Butchery Site, Boxgrove, under excavation in 1990. Source: Internet
Butchery manager Paul Higgins, a former head butcher at the House of Bruar, carefully chooses suppliers and employs many of his secret recipes. Source: Internet