carnager

English

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From carnage +‎ -er.

carnager (plural carnagers)

(dated, obsolete) Synonym of butcher (“a brutal or indiscriminate killer”)
- 1862, George Henry Borrow, Wild Wales, Its People, Language and Scenery: in Three Volumes · Volume 3, page 99:
  May God and Rome's blest father high / Deck him in surest panoply! / Hail to the valiant carnager, / Worthy three diadems to bear!