v. 屠宰；残杀；弄糟（butcher的现在分词）
n. 屠宰加工业

[ noun ]
the business of a butcher
<noun.act>

Butchering \Butch"er*ing\, n.
1. The business of a butcher.

2. The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and
needlessly.

That dreadful butchering of one another. --Addison.


Butcher \Butch"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Butchered}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Butchering}.]
1. To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market;
as, to butcher hogs.

2. To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or
barbarous manner. --Macaulay.

[Ithocles] was murdered, rather butchered. --Ford.

3. to bungle badly; to botch; -- used also when an object is
damaged (literally or figuratively) in an activity; as,
the new choir butchered the hymn.

Syn: mangle. [PJC]