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Slaughter \Slaugh"ter\, n. [OE. slautir, slaughter, slaghter,
Icel. sl[=a]tr slain flesh, modified by OE. slaught, slaht,
slaughter, fr. AS. sleaht a stroke, blow; both from the root
of E. slay. See {Slay}, v. t., and cf. {Onslaught}.]
The act of killing. Specifically:
(a) The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of
life; carnage.

On war and mutual slaughter bent. --Milton.
(b) The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market.

Syn: Carnage; massacre; butchery; murder; havoc.

Slaughter \Slaugh"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Slaughtered}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Slaughtering}.]
1. To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay
in battle.

Your castle is surprised; your wife and babes
Savagely slaughtered. --Shak.

2. To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts.

Now, the surplus is gone, partly because of a 1986 "whole herd buyout," in which farmers sold their entire herds to the government for slaughter and promised to stay out of the dairy business for five years.
There were indications that the drought-induced slaughter of 1991 could lead to reduced production this year. The report says significant cost savings of about 30 per cent were made during the year on freight costs to North America.
According to federal inspection reports, the slaughter of beef cows this year through the first week in August totaled about 1.89 million head, down 9 percent from the same period in 1987. airy cow slaughter, at 1.66 million head, dropped 3 percent.
According to federal inspection reports, the slaughter of beef cows this year through the first week in August totaled about 1.89 million head, down 9 percent from the same period in 1987. airy cow slaughter, at 1.66 million head, dropped 3 percent.
"The decisions are the will of the majority of Americans who are fed up with the senseless, daily slaughter," Ms. Walker said.
On June 1, the number of hogs kept for breeding was 3 percent below a year ago, while market hogs _ those destined for slaughter _ were down only 1 percent.
Sometimes a specific event could explain it: the botching of the Dardanelles campaign, for example, and the fearful slaughter that followed.
Livestock and meat futures retreated on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, pressured by falling beef prices and a large hog slaughter on Thursday.
Many farmers began to cull their breeding stock by selling cows for slaughter.
The monthly report, released after the close of trading Friday, was generally in line with industry expectations. Feedlots are where young cattle are fattened for slaughter.
Because of tight supplies, the hog slaughter is slipping instead of rising as it usually does in the spring.
Other Kenyans encourage the slaughter; unable to profit from the elephants, they see the herds as mainly an economic threat: Elephants knock over trees, graze voraciously and drink scarce water.
What's more, traders now have to worry that the fear of lower prices next year might spur ranchers to slaughter more cattle now, which would itself tend to depress prices.
India's cattle slaughter was estimated at 6.5 million head.
This past August, the auto maker floated two drastic proposals that would "slaughter the sacred cows," as company officials put it.
Count also the Syrian slaughter of 5,000 Arab dissidents in Hama in 1982.
It was wonderful to see this after knowing of the slaughter they've gone through." George Washington advertised in it, Thomas Jefferson sued it and Mark Twain tried to buy a piece of it.
Demonstrations in Shanghai, Nanjing and other major Chinese cities to protest the slaughter in Beijing.
An advocate of buying these funds in the aftermarket, Drake Capital's Mr. Samuels, calls the offering the "slaughter," and the aftermarket the "afterthought."
Cow slaughter is illegal in many of India's 25 states.
To fatten a pig for slaughter takes about six months.
Many forecasters thought prices would ease months ago, based on previous Agriculture Department reports that growing numbers of cattle were being fattened for slaughter.
LIVESTOCK AND MEATS: Pork belly and hog futures prices rallied as pork product prices steadied and the number of animals going to slaughter fell.
Special imported "long-grain-fed" beef is from Australian and U.S. cattle two to three years old at slaughter.
The refugees pouring into Burundi's northern neighbor, Rwanda, claim the Burundi army, which along with the government is dominated by the minority Tutsi tribe, is taking part in a mass slaughter of the nation's majority Hutu tribe.
He said most observers had expected the slaughter rate to level off or begin to rise in the first quarter.
Analysts attributed the drop to an expected increase in slaughter next week and the bearish Agriculture Department hog and pig report.
The Jewish and Moslem communities are exempt from legislation requiring animals to be stunned before slaughter.
Cattle prices had been falling because feedlots, which fatten livestock for slaughter, are housing a large number of unusually heavy cattle.
Feedlots fatten young cattle for slaughter, so a decline signals a tightening supply of beef.

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