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Meanings of butcher's shop in English

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A shop that is specialized in meat and meat products.

Usage of butcher's shop in English
1
The doctor's cabin was like a butcher's shop in these bird-catching times.
A Boy's Voyage Round the World
2
Marry a sarcophagus, a cannibal, a butcher's shop?-Away ! Istroveand strove.
The Fitz-Boodle Papers
3
The vehicle, riddled with bullets and arrows, resembled a butcher's shop.
Kid Wolf of Texas / A Western Story
4
We passed a butcher's shop, or rather tent, which formed a curious spectacle.
A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53
5
She had never in her life been inside a butcher's shop!
Australia Felix
6
By and by, in passing through a village, I came to a butcher's shop.
Cat and Dog; Or, Memoirs of Puss and the Captain
7
And the butcher's shop, and then the sheep, and the dogs and the cows!
Jeremy
8
Occasionally, too, he stole fowls or raided a butcher's shop.
Those Who Smiled, and Eleven Other Stories
9
It looks more like a specimen from a butcher's shop than the human variety!
Monitress Merle
10
A dog entered butcher's shop and stole leg of lamb.
The new yorker
11
If the heart of the square were shambles, the ground beyond was a butcher's shop.
The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition
12
There was a butcher's shop in the building, and that did not suit my fancy.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
13
IT was a butcher's shop near the Mater Hospital.
The Irish Times
14
They also ran a butcher's shop, but decided to retire and indulge their passion for travelling.
The Guardian
15
The operating theatre looked like a butcher's shop.
Combed Out
16
One might think it was just unhooked from that butcher's shop in one of Jordaen's pictures.
Bohemians of the Latin Quarter