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Butcher: Definition and part of speech

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Butcher

  1. n. A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle.
  2. n. One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food.

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.

Bustle: Definition and part of speech

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Bustle

  1. n. A kind of pad or cushion worn on the back below the waist, by women, to give fullness to the skirts; — called also bishop, and tournure.
  2. v. i. To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd.
  3. n. Great stir; agitation; tumult from stirring or excitement.

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.