Difference between slaughterhouse and shambles and slaughter
Definitions
noun
- a building where animals are butchered
Examples
Many animals are not properly stunned as they are pushed through the slaughterhouse as quickly as possible.
Pigs are innocent victims of a cruel, unrelenting slaughterhouse industry.
Not the $8 an hour knocker, sticker, bleeder, tail ripper, flanker, gutter, sawer, and plate boner slaughterhouse jobs that even Americans prisoners on work release won't do.
Definitions
noun
- a building where animals are butchered
- a condition of great disorder
Examples
I have not seen such a drunken shambles for ages - he was really struggling, slurring his words, the lot.
What a complete and utter shambles.
An emergency squad of 600 plumbers and electricians has been drafted in to repair the shambles.
Definitions
noun
- the savage and excessive killing of many people
- a sound defeat
- the killing of animals (as for food)
verb
- kill (animals) usually for food consumption
- kill a large number of people indiscriminately
Examples
It emerged that a slaughterman, a trained marksman, tried to kill the animals with a .22 rifle from a vehicle, with a vet present.
Five cows and 30 sheep were slaughtered during the event, which together with the bride's R60000 lobola cost the groom a total of R200000.
It is not hard to fathom why Rwanda, still not fully healed from an ethnic slaughter that was egged on by radio zealots, would look for ways to regulate what it calls "divisionism" in the media.
