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shochet

shochet

English

Noun

shochet ‎(plural shochets or shochetim)

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....