shochet
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Hebrew שׁוֹחֵט (shokhét, “slaughterer, butcher”).
Noun
editshochet (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,