Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Butchery \Butch"er*y\, n. [OE. bocherie shambles, fr. F.
   boucherie. See {Butcher}, n.]
   1. The business of a butcher. [Obs.]

   2. Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual
      barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. --Shak.

            The perpetration of human butchery.   --Prescott.

   3. A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is
      shed. [Obs.]

            Like as an ox is hanged in the butchery. --Fabyan.

   Syn: Murder; slaughter; carnage. See {Massacre}.

Source : WordNet®

butchery
     n 1: a building where animals are butchered [syn: {abattoir}, {shambles},
           {slaughterhouse}]
     2: the business of a butcher [syn: {butchering}]
     3: the savage and excessive killing of many people [syn: {slaughter},
         {massacre}, {mass murder}, {carnage}]