killcow
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Is killcow a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A butcher.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."obsolete
2. (obsolete, figuratively) A violent person; a bully; a brutal or indiscriminate killer.Examples: "Muster his arrant braveries together, and where such a terrible kill-cow, or such a vengeable bull-beggar, to deal withal?"figurativelyobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary