Cull vs Slaughter - What's the difference?
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To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
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To gather, collect.
* Tennyson
* 1977 , , Penguin Classics, p. 202:
To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.
(nonstandard, euphemistic) To kill (animals etc).
To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.
A selection.
An organised killing of selected animals.
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A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen.
(slang, dialectal) A fool, gullible person; a dupe.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 307:
(uncountable) The killing of animals, generally for food; ritual slaughter (kosher and halal).
A massacre; the killing of a large number of people.
* Milton
A rout or decisive defeat.
To butcher animals, generally for food
To massacre people in large numbers
To kill in a particularly brutal manner
As verbs the difference between cull and slaughter
is that cull is to pick or take someone or something (from a larger group) while slaughter is to butcher animals, generally for food.As nouns the difference between cull and slaughter
is that cull is a selection while slaughter is the killing of animals, generally for food; ritual slaughter (kosher and halal).As a proper noun Slaughter is
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English
(Culling)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- whitest honey in fairy gardens culled
- Chaucer's prose Tale of Melibee is a dialectal homily of moral debate, exhibiting a learned store of ethical precept culled from many ancient authorities.
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=It seemed that the sun shone and all was right in our Blakean islands until the government began to set in motion its promised cull of badgers in an effort to control bovine TB. Salvation for brock came in the form of an online petition started by Queen guitarist Brian May, the rising costs of the programme and the weather.}}
Etymology 2
Perhaps an abbreviation of (cully).Noun
(en noun)- Follow but my counsel, and I will show you a way to empty the pocket of a queer cull without any danger of the nubbing cheat.
Synonyms
* See also ----slaughter
English
(wikipedia slaughter)Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(-)- on war and mutual slaughter bent