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BUTCHER

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 877 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BUTCHER , one who slaughters animals, and dresses and prepares the See also:

carcass for purposes of See also:food. The word also is applied to one who combines this See also:trade with that of selling the See also:meat, and to one who only sells the meat. The O. Fr. bochier or bouchier, See also:modern See also:boucher, from which " butcher " is derived, meant originally a killer of goats and a seller of goats' flesh, from the O. Fr. boc, a he-See also:goat; cf. Ital. beccaio, from becco, a goat.

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