- abattoir, butchery, shambles, slaughterhouse - a building where animals are butchered
--1 is a kind of building, edifice
Derived form: verb butcher1 - butchery, butchering - the business of a butcher
--2 is a kind of commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business
--2 has parts: slaughterDerived form: verb butcher1 - slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery - the savage and excessive killing of many people
--3 is a kind of murder, slaying, execution
--3 has particulars:bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed, battue; Alamo; Little Bighorn, Battle of Little Bighorn, Battle of the Little Bighorn, Custer's Last Stand Derived form: verb butcher1