Shochet

//ˈʃoʊxɛt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person certified under Jewish law to slaughter cattle and poultry

    "2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf (2001), 9, He was by profession a boot and shoe manufacturer, a shochet (a kosher slaughterer), and later a grocer […]"

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"2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf (2001), 9, He was by profession a boot and shoe manufacturer, a shochet (a kosher slaughterer), and later a grocer […]"

Etymology

From Hebrew שׁוֹחֵט (shokhét, “slaughterer, butcher”).

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