boucher, v.a., to stop, stuff, choke up; to obstruct. — une bouteille; to cork a bottle. — un tonneau; to bung a barrel. — la vue d’un voisin; to obstruct a neighbor’s view. Se — les oreilles; to stop one’s ears. Se — le nez; to hold one’s nose. — un trou; to stop up a gap, to pay a debt.

boucher, n.m., butcher. — en gros; carcass-butcher.

bouchère, n.f., a butcher’s wife, woman keeping a butcher’s shop.

boucherie (boo-shrî), n.f., shambles, butchery, market; slaughter, carnage, massacre.

bouche-trou, n.m., (—-—s) a stop-gap.

bouchoir, n.m., oven-door, lid, stopper.

bouchon, n.m., cork, stopper; ☉darling; wisp (of straw, &c.); packet (of linen); pot-house. Frotter un cheval avec un — de paille; to rub down a horse with a wisp of straw. — de cabaret; tavern-bush (kind of game).

bouchonner, v.a., to rub down (a horse).

bouchonnier, n.m., corkcutter.

bouchot, n.m., fishing-hurdles; mussel-bed.