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Meanings of slaughter-house in English

A place where animals are butchered for food.

Synonyms
Examples for "shambles"
Examples for "shambles"
1
The state of opposition politics and democracy is in a shambles too.
The South African
2
Mr Woodhouse said: It just shows what a shambles this thing is.
News.com.au
3
Shortly after the deal closed, the subprime housing market fell into shambles.
Reuters
4
On this day in 1985, the American videogame market was in shambles.
Wired
5
In a little the poor beast rises, and shambles out lurching queerly.
The House on the Borderland
1
Of course, with the butchery, my hand is often tired these days.
Cleaving
2
The Belgians in vain interposed to prevent the butchery of the English.
Vanity Fair
3
Somehow Jacket managed to be right in the middle of the butchery.
Rainbow's End
4
An inhuman butchery of the children and some of the women followed.
The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
5
All the martyrs were now brought to the place of their butchery.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. J...
1
The slaughterhouse produces meat exclusively for the local market in Amazonas State.
Reuters
2
I'm goin' to go home with you when we leave the slaughterhouse.
God don't like ugly
3
Nor does she focus on the slaughterhouse aspect of our food cycle.
Wired
4
The firm has been running a slaughterhouse for the past 50 years.
The new yorker
5
At short range, they could transform a crowded deck into a slaughterhouse.
In the King's name
1
This morning, police have broken up a protest at a Queensland abattoir.
News.com.au
2
According to the statement, the abattoir in Clayville had resumed regular operations.
The South African
3
These days Harris Meats is an independent abattoir and meat processing… Audio
Radio NZ
4
The cluster of cases from the Cedar Meats abattoir has reached 75.
News.com.au
5
This morning, police also broke up a protest at a Queensland abattoir.
News.com.au
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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