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Meanings of slaughter-house in English

A place where animals are butchered for food.

Usage of slaughter-house in English
1
Those were savage times when this old slaughter-house was in its prime.
Roughing It
2
It was the smell of death and horror, like some gigantic slaughter-house.
A Hard Day’s Knight
3
The place was a slaughter-house; never have I seen so ghastly a sight.
With The Immortal Seventh Division
4
Between two and three he was going to the slaughter-house for the meat.
The Chorus Girl and Other Stories
5
Here is an excellent flock for the slaughter-house of the Carabi.
Social Life in the Insect World
6
Everything relating to the slaughter-house is revolting to a refined and humane person.
The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition
7
Rome is a mad-house, Germany a slaughter-house, and France a brothel.
Historical Miniatures
8
The fellow went down like an ox in a slaughter-house.
Man-Size
9
The field over the "surround" presented the appearance of one vast slaughter-house.
The Great Salt Lake Trail
10
Armour's remark about the village slaughter-house was getting close home.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 / Little J...
11
In slaughter-house slang the soldiers cry, "Let us pole-axe the lot of them."
The History of a Crime / The Testimony of an Eye-Witness
12
He's down in the bed of the slaughter-house run.
The Just and the Unjust
13
It is transforming the industrial world into a slaughter-house.
In His Image
14
The beams and carlines overhead in the 'Macedonian' slaughter-house were spattered with blood and brains.
The Naval History of the United States. Volume 1
15
The Swede's arms flew out and he went down like a steer in a slaughter-house.
Under Handicap / A Novel
16
A mortar battery was planted north of the slaughter-house.
In Times of Peril: A Tale of India
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