Butchery

n.	1.	The business of a butcher.
	2.	Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. The perpetration of human butchery. - Prescott.
	3.	A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed. Like as an ox is hanged in the butchery. - Fabyan.

Noun	1.	butchery - a building where animals are butchered Synonyms: abattoir, slaughterhouse, shambles
	2.	butchery - the business of a butcher Synonyms: butchering
	3.	butchery - the savage and excessive killing of many people Synonyms: carnage, mass murder, massacre, slaughter

abattoir, building, butcher, edifice, shambles, slaughter, slaughterhouse