Butcher vs Carver - What's the difference?
butcher | carver |
A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
* 1900', , Chapter I,
(by extension) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
* Shakespeare
(Cockney rhyming slang, from butcher's hook) A look.
(informal, obsolete) A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.
To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
To kill brutally.
To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.
Someone who carves.
(dated) A carving knife.
(dated) A butcher.
An armchair as part of a set of dining chairs (originally for the person who is to carve the meat).
*2000 , (JG Ballard), Super-Cannes , Fourth Estate 2011, p. 215:
*:She began a circuit of the dining room, peering at the baronial fireplace with its andirons the size of torture racks, and heavy oak carvers like gnarled thrones.
As nouns the difference between butcher and carver
is that butcher is a person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals) while carver is someone who carves.As proper nouns the difference between butcher and carver
is that butcher is {{surname|A=An|occupational|from=occupations}} for a butcher while Carver is {{surname}.As a verb butcher
is to slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.butcher
English
(wikipedia butcher)Noun
(en noun)- He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days...
- Butcher of an innocent child.
Derived terms
* * butcher's hook * pork butcherVerb
(en verb)- The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".
