BUTCHER  , one who slaughters animals, and dresses and prepares the See also:

• CARCASS

carcass for purposes of See also:

• FOOD
• FOOD (like the verb " to feed," from a Teutonic root, whence O. Eng. foda; cf. " fodder "; connected with Gr. lrareicOae, to feed)

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

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade with that of selling the See also:

• MEAT

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

• MODERN

modern See also:

• BOUCHER, FRANCOIS (1703-1770)
• BOUCHER, JONATHAN (1738-1804)

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 (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 .