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It is also through this and earlier editions of the DOSAE that one learned, to one's surprise, of the South African provenance of words like off-load unload, bottle store liquor store, butchery butcher's shop, and bond mortagage bond.
They are descendants of outcasts employed to perform the originally taboo — and still disdained — trades of butchery, leatherwork, garbage collection, and the handling of corpses.
When Baltus Van Tassel (Michael Gambon), the town's richest citizen, intones the story of the Hessian who lopped the heads off revolutionaries for sheer love of butchery, the flashback is mythic in its ghastliness: Christopher Walken--his hair swept up, with boiled eggs for eyes and teeth like sharp spikes--wheels, hacks, impales, and drenches the snow with gore.
metamorphosis the butchery of a prisoner, e.g., by the castration of males, removal of the breasts of females; a term used by some Latin-American prisoners.