slaughtering
Verb
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Verb
- present participle of slaughter#English|slaughter
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)
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