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Slaughterhouse

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A place where animals are slaughtered.
  2. 2
    a building where animals are butchered wordnet
  3. 3
    The scene of a massacre. figuratively

    "The smaller shells make a complete slaughterhouse of the bridge, and the splinters scythe through anyone out on deck."

Etymology

From slaughter + house.

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