shochet
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Hebrew שׁוֹחֵט (shokhét, “slaughterer, butcher”).
Noun[edit]
shochet (plural shochets or shochetim or shochtim)
- A person certified under Jewish law to slaughter cattle and poultry
- 2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf (2001), 9,
- He was by profession a boot and shoe manufacturer, a shochet (a kosher slaughterer), and later a grocer […]
- 2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf (2001), 9,