Butch'er-ly, a.
a. [From butcher.] Grossly cruel and barbarous; bloody; murderous. “The victim of a butcherly murder.” D. Webster.
What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! Shak.
a. [From butcher.] Grossly cruel and barbarous; bloody; murderous. “The victim of a butcherly murder.” D. Webster.
What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! Shak.