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slaughtering en · NOUN
Meanings
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An act of slaughter; a killing.
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:
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Deriveds
manslaughtering
slaughtering en · VERB
Meanings
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of slaughter