abattoir

• If you'd been in a modern abattoir, you'd know the cattle aren't frightened. —  Magazine - Fantasy and Science Fiction - [Vol 112] - Issue 04 - April 2007 (v1.0) [html]
• She started taking Bold with her on her morning trips to the abattoir, located right in the heart of the old city. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
• ;Still playing the baby duck, even when the mommy ducks are heading for the abattoir. —  JEFF GRUBB
• Grant had been bludgeoned to death with one of his own hideous creations The phrase seemed eerily apt here in this workshop-turned-abattoir, where Grant had fashioned his sick fetishes from animal and bird corpses and where, in turn, someone had fashioned his death And then I remembered another phrase from the quatrain: nets to catch the wind. —  Muller, Marcia - [11] Trophies and Dead Things.htm
• He got no further than his opening gambit: the sincerest of apologies that would make way for certain reconciliation and a possible promise on the night-bus home, when she handed him a whisky and told him that she had a new bloke, a bloke called Frankie who came from Slaemuir and worked in an abattoir or something as rank. —  BlackStaticHorrorMagazine#3

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