Defn: A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
SLAUGHTERMAN
Slaugh"ter*man, n.; pl. Slaughtermen (.
Defn: One employed in slaughtering. Shak.
SLAUGHTEROUS
Slaugh"ter*ous, a.
Defn: Destructive; murderous. Shak. M. Arnold.
— Slaugh"ter*ous*ly, adv.
SLAV Slav, n.;pl. Slavs. Etym: [A word originally meaning, intelligible, and used to contrast the people so called with foreigners who spoke languages unintelligible to the Slavs; akin to OSlav. slovo a word, slava fame, Skr. çru to hear. Cf. Loud.] (Ethnol.)
Defn: One of a race of people occupying a large part of Eastern and
Northern Europe, including the Russians, Bulgarians, Roumanians,
Servo-Croats, Slovenes, Poles, Czechs, Wends or Sorbs, Slovaks, etc.
[Written also Slave, and Sclav.]
SLAVE
Slave, n.
Defn: See Slav.
SLAVE Slave, n. Etym: [Cf. F. esclave, D. slaaf, Dan. slave, sclave, Sw. slaf, all fr. G. sklave, MHG. also slave, from the national name of the Slavonians, or Sclavonians (in LL. Slavi or Sclavi), who were frequently made slaves by the Germans. See Slav.]