shochet

English

Alternative forms

• schochat, schochet, shochat, shohet

Etymology

From Hebrew שׁוֹחֵט (shokhét, “slaughterer, butcher”).

Noun

shochet (plural shochets or shochetim or shochtim)

1. A person certified under Jewish law to slaughter cattle and poultry
   • 2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf (2001), 9,

     He was by profession a boot and shoe manufacturer, a shochet (a kosher slaughterer), and later a grocer […]

Anagrams

• hotches