butcher

A butcher is a person who slices and sells meat.

Example: I went to the butcher to buy a steak.

A butcher is a person who kills and prepares animals as meat.

Example: The butcher killed the pig and made bacon.

A butcher is a person who kills in a violent way.

Example: Jack the Ripper was a crazy butcher of women.

If you butcher an animal, you kill it and cut it up into meat.

Example: He had to butcher the sheep to get chops for his dinner.