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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

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CARCASS

carcass for purposes of

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food . The word also is applied to one who combines this

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trade with that of selling the

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MEAT

meat, and to one who only sells the meat . The O . Fr. bochier or bouchier,

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MODERN

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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-

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GOAT (a common Teut. word; O. Eng. gat, Goth. gaits, Mod. Ger. Geiss, cognate with Lat. haedus, a kid)

goat; cf . Ital. beccaio, from becco, a goat .

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