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shochets

shochets is the plural 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

Questions about shochets

What is shochets the plural of?
Shochets is the plural of shochet.

Words near shochets in the dictionary

  1. Shobrooke
  2. shochat
  3. shochatim
  4. shochet
  5. shochetim
  6. shochets
  7. shochikubai
  8. shochtim
  9. shochu
  10. shochus
  11. shock

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