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Definition of Butching
1. killing cruelly [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Butching
Literary usage of Butching
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1907)
"... then and in such case I give and devise to my son Stephen my dwelling-house,
hutching-shop, stable, and byre in Fryar Gate, and all my butching utensils ..."
2. The Publications of the Harleian Society by Harleian Society (1892)
"29 William butching, of East ... Elizabeth Freeman, Spr, ab', with consent of
her father Wm Freeman, of the same, Mercer ; alleged by John butching, ..."
3. Common Bench Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Common Pleas by James Manning, Thomas Colpitts Granger, John Scott, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1854)
"... all my debts as aforesaid, then and in such case I give and devise to my son
Stephen, my dwelling-house, butching-shop, stable, and byre in Friar Gate, ..."
4. The Nineteenth Century (1891)
"... still, sentiment has its influence, legitimate enough when not too widely
extended; and we confess that the image of a ' butching' woman, ..."
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