Butch'er-y, n.
n. 1. The business of a butcher.
Sense 2. Murder, especially murder committed with unusual barbarity; great slaughter. “The perpetration of human butchery.” Prescott.
Can he a son to soft remorse incite, Whom jails, and blood, and butchery delight? Dryden.
Sense 3. The place where animals are killed for market; a shambles, or slaughter-house; also, a place where blood is shed. [Obs.]
He was first hanged upon a tree, like as an ox is hanged in the butchery, and there dismembered. Fabyan.
Synonyms—Murder; slaughter; carnage; massacre. See MASSACRE.