I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
local
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For millions of Nepali Hindus the brahmins are high priest and local butcher .
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They will live in barracks, eat food from local butchers , bakeries and dairies, and visit town on furlough.
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He had to rely on a kind-hearted local butcher who gave him two chickens a week to build up his strength.
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He buys rabbit and game from a local butcher .
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Twenty years ago, say, the local butcher might know that Mrs Jones bought a ham every Saturday.
■ NOUN
knife
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A butchers knife was later recovered at the scene.
shop
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The tramway was at first operated by horses which were stabled at the rear of the present Ashby's butchers shop .
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Mr Klubock was at work now in the butcher shop .
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Mr. Uphill's butcher shop , adjoined the Methodist Church, it was small, very clean and well scrubbed.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Many small independent butchers are closing down.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also patron of artists, butchers, glassworkers, notaries, painters, and surgeons.
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And in Butcher Row there were 29 butchers, including a Master Butcher who features in the books.
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He had a couple of hundred dollars on top of the dashboard, folded in butcher wrap stained with lamb-chop blood.
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He had been hired by a butcher in the Shambles.
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The butcher , the baker, the candlestick maker.
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Therefore, we recommend having the butcher debone them whenever possible.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And who did butcher those women?
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Catholics, he preached, trained blind and furious zealots to butcher and scalp Protestants.
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Each of his predecessors has been assassinated / butchered / knifed by one or more among those gathered in front of him.
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Loi butchered it eagerly, first cutting off inch-thick steaks which we fried in soy sauce and oil and were delicious.
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Memories of the 1983 riots, when thousands of Tamils were butchered in Colombo, are lively.
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The scent of dense green growth, irrigation mist, massive trees not butchered for their fodder, fattened, passive cattle.
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They decided Mr Newall was butchered downstairs and his wife in her bedroom.