Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One employed in killing; a slayer; an executioner.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One employed in slaughtering.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A man employed to slaughter animals work in a slaughterhouse.

Etymologies

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slaughter +‎ -man

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Examples

  • The "slaughterman" was in fact an eighty-year-old lady and, once a week, she would buy a beast from the market and keep it in her paddock.

    The emasculation of common sense Richard 2006

  • Better conduct is expected from a licensed slaughterman. on August 7, 2009 at 12: 04 pm mark

    Police Use Naughty Word *SHOCK* « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • I think we all know who the chief slaughterman is.

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  • Part Roman emperor, part chief slaughterman, Cowell and his talent abattoir are backX Factor Autotune row hits the wrong notes

    TV review: The X Factor 2010

  • Re missing watch; How suprised is that slaughterman going to be?

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Calling all Texans… 2009

  • Activists are on stand-by to hold hands and protect Shambo from the slaughterman with a ‘chain of faith’.

    Clarke's shoes 2007

  • The vision of the bullock returned, and with it the memory of the slaughterman putting a second shot in its head, the beast dropping for the second and final time.

    I have a cunning plan… Richard 2005

  • He had been a garage mechanic, a gardener, a farmhand, a butcher's assistant, a slaughterman at an abattoir.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

  • My companions had been trained as children to kill swiftly and without cruelty and practiced all the disciplines of a halal slaughterman.

    The Skrayling Tree Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 2003

  • At the same time, Drs. Frederick Brown and George Phillips argued that though the murderer showed some anatomical knowledge, "the murder could have been committed by a person who had been a hunter, a butcher, a slaughterman, as well as a student in surgery or a properly qualified surgeon."

    Jack the Ripper As the Threat of Outcast London. Robert F. Haggard Robert F. Haggard 1993

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