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schochat

schochat is the alternative form of shochet.

Meaning of shochet

Noun

shochet (plural shochets or shochetim or shochtim)

  1. A person certified under Jewish law to slaughter cattle and poultry
    • He was by profession a boot and shoe manufacturer, a shochet (a kosher slaughterer), and later a grocer […]2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf (2001), 9

Forms of schochat

pluralschochats
pluralschochatim

Questions about schochat

What is schochat the alternative form of?
Schochat is the alternative form of shochet.

Words near schochat in the dictionary

  1. Schnurr
  2. Schnurrs
  3. schober
  4. schobers
  5. Schoch
  6. schochat
  7. schochatim
  8. schochats
  9. Schoches
  10. schochet
  11. schochetim

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