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shochat

shochat 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 shochat

pluralshochats
pluralshochatim

Questions about shochat

What is shochat the alternative form of?
Shochat is the alternative form of shochet.

Words near shochat in the dictionary

  1. Shobers
  2. Shobes
  3. Shobhit
  4. Shobnall
  5. Shobrooke
  6. shochat
  7. shochatim
  8. shochet
  9. shochetim
  10. shochets
  11. shochikubai

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shochat (page history and authors); shochet (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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