Definitions for abattoirs

abattoirs ab·at·toir

Spelling: [ab-uh-twahr, ab-uh-twahr]
IPA: /ˈæb əˌtwɑr, ˌæb əˈtwɑr/

Abattoirs is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 426 anagrams from letters in abattoirs (aabiorstt).

Definitions for abattoirs

noun

  1. a slaughterhouse.

Origin of abattoirs

1810-20; French, equivalent to abatt(re) to slaughter (see abate) + -oir -ory2

Examples for abattoirs

Digging like a navvy in order to get admission to the abattoir!

A view down into the wild, Art Deco abattoir now called the 1933 Center in Shanghai.

The monsters in question could only be the Shylocks of the abattoir who had tempted him with blood-money for Mlle. Adrienne.

The abattoir was being used as a distribution plant for the meat of cattle slaughtered outside the city.

Aberdeen is in fact becoming little else than a London abattoir.

The pigs will be dealt with in the abattoir, sent as fresh pork to the market or be turned into bacon to feed the members.

When it comes to slaughtering defenseless animals with high-powered guns, I prefer a position in an abattoir.

Shall I to the abattoir and ask the slayer of oxen for a steak?

The still hunting of the natives has all the romance and danger attending the slaughter of sheep in an abattoir.

Such an abattoir would never be permitted to continue in the United States, or indeed the developed (and white) world.

Word Value for abattoirs
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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