Meaning of killcow | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A butcher.
   obsolete
2. A violent person; a bully; a brutal or indiscriminate killer.
   figuratively, obsolete

Examples

“Of all occupations that now adays are used / I would not be a butcher, for that's to be refused; / For whatever is gotten, or whatever is gained, / He shall be call'd Kill-cow, and so shall be named.”

“And how do I look⟳ now? Like⟳ one that was begotten under a butcher's stall, I warrant, and born in a slaughter-house? I know⟳ there's never a Kill-cow i' th' city becomes a woollen apron better than I do.”

“Muster his arrant braveries together, and where such a terrible kill-cow, or such a vengeable bull-beggar, to deal⟳ withal?”

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