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shohet

shohet 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 shohet

pluralshohets
pluralshohetim

Questions about shohet

What is shohet the alternative form of?
Shohet is the alternative form of shochet.

Words near shohet in the dictionary

  1. shogunates
  2. Shogunite
  3. Shogunites
  4. shoguns
  5. Shohei
  6. shohet
  7. shohetim
  8. shohets
  9. Shohn
  10. Shoigu
  11. shoji

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