Butchery

1. n. A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed.
2. n. The business of a butcher.
3. n. Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.