butchery, noun

Origin:
English, Afrikaans, DutchShow more English, influenced by Afrikaans slagtery butcher’s shop (from Dutch slachterij abattoir).
A butcher’s shop, where meat is sold to the public.
1890 B. Fuller Call Back Yesterday (1953) (facing p.118) (name in photograph)Estcourt Butchery.
1912 S. Afr. ‘Inquire Within’ (Cape Times) 28 (advt)Orange River Butchery...Beef, Mutton, Veal, Lamb and Poultry always on hand. Orders promptly delivered to all parts of the town.
1950 H. Gibbs Twilight in S. Afr. 113They own general stores, restaurants, garages, butcheries, mineral water stores, bakeries, eating-houses, laundries, and cinemas.
1959 L. Herrman Note on Cape Idiom 242The equivalent in English is ‘butcher shop’ or ‘butcher’s shop’. The word butchery may be applied in English to a slaughter house, but rarely, if ever, is it used for a place where meat is sold.
1968 Farmer’s Weekly 3 Jan. 99 (advt)Two butcheries for sale. On popular South Coast. Great opportunities.
1971 Drum Aug. 53He had then been given a little butchery by the council in Jabavu. He had no meat blocks or choppers.
1987 M. Poland Train to Doringbult 191An old black man came out of the butchery on the corner. The fly screen banged behind him. He clutched a packet of chicken feet under his arm.
1990 Pace May 23The only business which survived the looting were two bottle stores, three general dealers, a butchery, a garage and ironically three funeral parlours.
1993 C. Pretorius in Flying Springbok June 35A wonderful butchery in White River..offered such delicacies as pineapple and apricot boerewors.
A butcher’s shop, where meat is sold to the public.
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