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schochet

schochet 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 schochet

pluralschochets
pluralschochetim

Questions about schochet

What is schochet the alternative form of?
Schochet is the alternative form of shochet.

Words near schochet in the dictionary

  1. Schoch
  2. schochat
  3. schochatim
  4. schochats
  5. Schoches
  6. schochet
  7. schochetim
  8. schochets
  9. Schockling
  10. Schodack
  11. schoderite

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