slaughtering
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]slaughtering
- present participle and gerund of slaughter
Noun
[edit]slaughtering (plural slaughterings)
- An act of slaughter; a killing.
- 1970, New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, volume 13, number 1, page 129:
- Towards the end of each trial (approximately July), when the Hock had been markedly depleted by mortalities and the successive group slaughterings, the remaining animals were confined to one paddock.