butched

Verb

butch (third-person singular simple present butches, present participle butching, simple past and past participle butched)

1. (intransitive, nonstandard) To work as a butcher.
   • Sax thouſand years are near hand fled, / Sin’ I was to the butching bred, / And mony a ſcheme in vain’s been laid, / To ſtap or ſcar me; / Till ane Hornbook’s ta’en up the trade, / And faith, he’ll waur me.1787, Robert Burns, “Death and Doctor Hornbook. A True Story.”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Edinburgh: […] the Author, and sold by William Creech, page 59
2. (nonstandard, transitive) To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
   • Take thy huge offal and white liver hence, / Or in a twinkling of this true-blue steel / I shall be butching thee from nape to rump.1834, Henry Taylor, Philip van Artvelde; a Dramatic Romance. […], 2nd edition, part II, London: Edward Moxon, […], pages 70–71

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