abattoir
屠宰场,屠场,屠宰厂,屠房
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- : a slaughterhouse.
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Germany’s largest pork plant was shuttered for a month this summer after more than 1,000 workers tested positive for Covid-19, and additional abattoirs also faced temporary closures from outbreaks.
Such an abattoir would never be permitted to continue in the United States, or indeed the developed (and white) world.
A few weeks later the monks laid siege to a Muslim-owned abattoir in Colombo to halt the slaughter of cattle.
The abattoir was being used as a distribution plant for the meat of cattle slaughtered outside the city.
A view down into the wild, Art Deco abattoir now called the 1933 Center in Shanghai.
And there is the master of our largest and goriest abattoir.
It was only a scratch and he had been knocked down like a beef in an abattoir by an unseen enemy, on whom he could not lay hands!
Have you ever seen a herd of cattle being driven to abattoir on a fine May morning?
Ay—and the abattoir is far, though its perfume is nigh; it is thrice a hundred yards from hence.
Probably it would be hung up in some abattoir, where oxen are driven in at one end, and tinned meat taken out at the other.