slaughtering
English
Verb
slaughtering
Noun
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.
- 1970, New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research (volume 13, number 1, page 129)