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Slauchtir, -er, Slachtir, n. Also: slautht-, slauch-, slauht-, slau(c)th-, slauct-, slautt-, slaught-, sclaucht-, sklaucht-, slawch(t)(t-, slhawcht-, slawtt-, slawght-, sclawt-, slakt-, slatt-, slaght-, sclac(h)t-, sclatt-, slaicht-, slaycht-, slaight- and -er, -ir(e, -yr(e, -re, -ar, -ur. [ME and e.m.E. slaghter (Cursor M.), slauhter (Manning), slaughter (Trevisa), slawghter (a1400), slawtyr, (Prompt. Parv.), ON slátr butcher-meat, Norw. dial. slaater cattle for killing, f. as Sla v.]

1. The action or fact of killing (a person or persons), chiefly, as a criminal act; murder, assassination. Also fig. b. An instance of this.For the legal distinction between murder (Murther n.¹, q.v. for further examples) and slaughter see esp. Skene Reg. Maj., Hope Major Pract. and Balfour Pract.(1) 14.. Acts I 342/1.
Thai that ar other arte or parte of … murthir thifte or slauchter c1420 Wynt. ii 60.
Fra thine hyr lust stwde halyly In slawchtyr and in lychory c1420 Wynt. vi 588.
Syne at Skwne Be slawchtyr wes hys dayis dwne 1456 Hay I 197/15.
Slauchter is dedely syn 1473–4 Treas. Acc. I 3.
A remismissione … for ald slauchter 1499–1500 Acta Conc. II 361.
That the sade Robert … was … servitour to him or the debat of slauchtir that happinnit betuex him and the sade Wilȝeam c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 20/140.
Off ded or slauchter culpabill knaw I me … I cry Thé marcy c1500-c1512 Dunb. (STS) xxxiii 39.
Full mony instrument for slawchtir Was in his gardevyance 1513 Doug. viii iv 28.
A hellis byke … Quhar the vile flur … was spred With recent slauchter of blud newly sched 1513 Doug. viii xii 88.
Corpsis new of slauchter red 1533 Boece 83.
He was invadit to slauchter and narolie evadit with his life a1538 Abell 57(bis)a.
It wes said till him for that sin … ‘The swerd of slauchter sal nocht pas out of thi hous’ 1546–7 Corr. M. Lorraine 178.
Statutis … tuiching slauchir and thift 1570 Sat. P. x 375.
For slauchter mercy wald he neuer grant; Baith murtheraris, theifis, and witches he did dant c1575 Balfour Pract. 512 (see Manslauchter n.). c1575 Balfour Pract. 516.
Kinbuit … to be payit be the committaris of slauchter 1593 Acts IV 43/1.
Baneist for slauchter 1595–6 James VI in Misc. Spald. C. II 219.
To sitt and hald court vpone the actionnes of slawchter mutillacioun [etc.] 1596 Dalr. I 121/4.
Heid him conuicte of slauchtir 1609 Skene Reg. Maj. i 84.
Gif he is takin with reid or hait hand of slauchter(b) 1473–4 Treas. Acc. I 4.
A remissione for all accionis except tressone, murthyre, slachter and thyft(c) 1597 Skene Verb. S. s.v. Recognition.
Gif the vassall is fugitiue for slaughter, and nocht law bidand a1633 Hope Major Pract. II 42.
Barrons who hes pouer of pitt and gallowes hes pouer to hold courts for slaughter a1633 Hope Major Pract. II 289.
Lyeing in wait for slaughter … to be punished with the paine of death a1633 Hope Major Pract. II 296.
If the master of the hous slay him [sc. a thief] quietlie without raiseing a shout he is guiltie of slaughterfig. 1603 Philotus 38.
Came ȝe to wow our lasse, now lachter, Ȝe ar sa rasch thair will be slachter(2) 1409 Exch. R. IV ccxi.
That nane of the foresaide lordis sal do … to nouthir of thaim slachtir 1473–4 Treas. Acc. I 12.
A remissioune … for slachter committit of ald 1531 Bell. Boece II 163.
He that makis slauchter, sal be heidit 1547 Reg. Privy C. I 59.
Personis that sal happin to committ slauchter … upoun forthocht fellonny 1578 Dunbar Social Life II 2.
For … satisfaction of slachtyr and slachters done be aither of the pairties 1612 Orkney & Shetl. Ct. Bk. 25.
Quhair slauchter is committit within ony jurisdictioun they awcht to be punischit conforme thairto 1641 Misc. Spald. C. II 239.
The Lord Constabill is onlie suprem judge in all materis of ryott … blood and slauchter committit within four mylles of the kingis royall persoun(3) c1420 Wynt. ix 1050.
To ger herschype and slawchtyr sese 1525 Crim. Trials I i 127.
[He] swore that he suld … stanche thift, reiff, slauchter(b) 1512 Justiciary Rec. III 300.
The criminal action of the said slachter … suld be put to the knaulege of ane assis ?1549 Corr. M. Lorraine 318.
For gud dres of this slachtir committit laitlie on an servand(c) 1530 Lennox Mun. 237.
Quhilk slaychter the said Sir James deniit 1562 Cal. Sc. P. I 687.
This berar … happinnit in cummer with ane gentill man, and committit ane slaichter for which he has been long in strait prisonb. c1420 Wynt. i 266.
Quhen that slawchtyr wes foryhettyn, On Eve Adam Seth has gettyn c1420 Wynt. v 2218.
That fellowne slawchtyr he awowyd, And sayd … thai Suld it murthyre call na way 1513 Doug. vii ix 7.
And the first slauchter was commyt … In dedly weir 1558-66 Knox I 184.
That thei should bruik commodities spirituall or temporall, whatsoever thei possessed befoir the said slauchter [sc. of Cardinal Beaton] evin as yf it had never bein committed 1569 Reg. Morton I 47.
To giff … to the said Gabriell … ane sufficient lettre of slanis and discharge of the samin slauchtir 1584 Acts III 299/2.
Gif it sall happin ather the defendar or persewar to sley … ane of thame … the commitar of the slauchter [etc.] 1591 St. A. Kirk S. 703.
The filthy slawchter commitit be him on Jhone Watt 1600 Crim. Trials II 156.
Giff thow be innocent of ȝone sklauchter, come furth

c. Const. of the victim or victims or with possess. or (rarely) attrib.(1) c1420 Wynt. viii 3242.
For slauchtyr off the Kyngis man 1504 Treas. Acc. II 442.
To hald ane court of justiciary on the Heriotis for slachter of the lard of Fentoun 1531 Bell. Boece I 208.
It wes said this cruell tyrane leuch nevir bot quhen he hard … slauchter of his nobillis: … na sicht micht be mair plesand to him than to se men murdir othir 1533 Boece 341.
Na man menyt that the quene … wald consent to slachter of hir awne husband 1533 Bell. Livy I 114/19 (B).
Slaucther a1578 Pitsc. II 87 h. of ch.
Hou my Lord Rothus was accusit for slauchter of the Cardinall and was clenȝit(2) 1456 Hay I 197/20.
He suld nocht consent to the syn of the slauchter of the lady c1475 Wall. vi 215.
Quhill this deid wrokyn be, The saklace slauchter off hir 1490 Irland Mir. II 14/32.
Thai cryit … that the slauchtir of Jhesu suld fall on thame a1500 Bk. Chess 1495.
[He] hard him grant the slauchter of this man c1515 Asl. MS I 218/23.
Efter that he had cummyn fra the slauchter of hir husband c1515 Asl. MS I 241/11.
Sir James of Douglas … for the foule slauchter of his brother 1496 Acta Conc. II 38.
Thai war dylatit of art and part of the slauchter of umquhile Dyonyse of Hammyltoun 1508–9 Crim. Trials I i 110.
Respitt made … for the slauchtir of vmquhile Schir Lancelote Patonsoun … quhilk happinnit be negligent cure 1513 Doug. ii ii 105.
With blude and by the slauchtir of a maid … ȝe mesyt the wyndis 1535 (c1580) Edinb. B. Rec. II 70.
Slawchter 1553 Balcarres P. 313.
The storming of Edeng and slauchter of Duik Oras be ane schot 1560 Fam. Rose 233.
Slawchtter 1569 Reg. Morton I 49.
The leitt … slawchter and murthoure of … James Erle of Murray 1558-66 Knox I 430.
Gif the slauchter of ane cardinall be ane syn irremissebill a1578 Pitsc. I 1/4.
Maister Hector Boes and maister Johne Ballentyne quha endit thair cronickill at the slauchter of King James the first a1578 Pitsc. II 42 h. of ch.
Slauthter 1590 Crim. Trials I ii 195.
The crewall slauchter, be thy craft of poysoun … of Marie Murdocht Moreis dochter 1591 Crim. Trials I ii 250.
Anent the bewiching and slauchter of Patrik Moscrop 1597 Skene Verb. S. s.v. Clan-Makduf.
That Spens of Wormestoun … inioyed … immunitie of this lawe, for the slauchter of ane called Kynnynmonth 1616 Crim. Trials III 401.
Vnder the pretext … of law … for the crewall and barbarus massacaring and slauchter of the said vmquhile Frances be the said Johnne Gordoun, scheref-depute his pretendit vsurpeing judge 1625 Justiciary Cases I 18.
Dilaitit of airt and part of the slauchter of vmquhile Williame Blair … be streking him with ane quhinger in his rycht airme … quhairof … he deceissit c1650 Spalding I 21.
No redres could be gottin of Balnadalloche for the innocent slauchter of his brothersone(b) 1473–4 Treas. Acc. I 4.
A remissione for the slachter of Johnne Crossate 1489 Lennox Mun. 130.
The cruell slachter and distruxcion of our souerane Lord 1495 Charter (Reg. H.) No. 596.
The deid & slachtur of wmquhil Johne of Caldwel 1512 Montgomery Mem. 77.
In … assithment of the slachter of … my sone, slane be Wylȝem Blair 1532 Lamont P. 40.
That Johnne Lamount sall … ask forgeifnes of the slachter of the said … Donald 1577 Anal. Scot. I 280.
Edem Donaldson, sawster … was heidit for the slachtar of Jon Tawis(c) a1595 Cullen Chron. Aberd. 45.
Slaichter(d) 1539 Crim. Trials I i 252.
Slaughter 1558-66 Knox II 382.
Slaughter a1578 Pitsc. II 184/33.
The quenis mariaige quhilk continwit to the slaughtir of Seinȝeour Dauid 1689 Buchanan's De Jure Reg. 56.
[He] thought him to be nobilitate by the slaughter of a tyrant(e) 1528–9 Stirling B. Rec. I 34.
Pate Fyndelosoun was convicit be ane conding assis for the creuall slakter of Johen Hammiltoun(3) possess. c1400 Troy-bk. ii 2016.
Cletemistra … had Ane buschement for his slauchtir mad c1400 Troy-bk. ii 2561.
Frome thar slauchter as he gan pas [etc.] 1533 Boece 8b.
How Nothat was crownit; of his mysgiding and slauch[t]er 1533 Boece 258b.
He subornit ane parte of the garde in the kingis slauchter 1557 Digest Justiciary Proc. B 146.
He … crewallie invaidit & persewit the said Walter for his slauchter 1562–3 Cal. Sc. P. I 692.
Slawghter 1565 Facs. Nat. MSS III xlvii.
The allegit conspiracy of his slauchter 1569 Cal. Sc. P. III 15.
Slaucter 1572-5 Diurn. Occurr. 127.
Decernit … to haue bein co-criminal of the kingis slauchter 1594 Warrender P. (SHS) II 249.
[The murderers of Cawdor] awatit upon him in all places quhair thay micht convenientlie for his slawchtter quhill in the end thay gat the same done 1596 Dalr. I 288/6.
Slauchtre 1611 Annandale Corr. 276.
Slawcher 1619 Crim. Trials III 482.
The said Johnne Lyddell … invaidit the said vmquhile Johnne Bell for his slauchter, schote him … with tua bullettis(4) attrib. a1400 Leg. S. ii 457.
And thai … throw browthir slawchtir can the file

d. Where the possess. pron. indicates the perpetrator. Also fig. Also transf. const. of the perpetrator. 1530 Maxwell Mem. I 262.
His slauttyr of the sayd Erlefig. c1500-c1512 Dunb. (STS) lxxiv 6.
Stynt of ȝour slauchter; Allace! ȝour man am Itransf. 1560 Rolland Seven S. 1661.
His gay grewhound … Quhilk sauit his sone fra slauchter of the serpent

e. transf. The destruction of the soul. 1456 Hay I 33/27.
The said weris ar mare perilous … be caus thai touch bath slaughter of body and saule

2. The indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people, as in battle, warlike depredations and the like; wholesale killing, carnage; massacre. Variously const. Also transf. b. An instance of this.(1) 1375 Barb. v 116.
The noyis, slauchtir, and the cry ?1438 Alex. i 2659. c1420 Wynt. ii 20.
Men in slawchtyre dede c1420 Wynt. viii 2418.
Fyvys-Nes … wes … wastyd … Be slauchtyr and destructyown 1442 Charter (Reg. H.) No. 307.
Gret slawchter, … wasting of owr liegis and commone & vther mony evyll 1513 Doug. i vii 95.
With gret slauchter bludy Diomeid Distroyt all 1513 Doug. vii ix 78.
Thys hait fury of slauchtir and fell affray 1531 Bell. Boece I 23.
Invading the countre with continuall heirschippis, fire and slauchter 1531 Bell. Boece I 169.
Corbreid … brocht thaim to sic irrecoverabill afflictioun and slauchter that [etc.] 1531 Bell. Boece I 170.
Sa innowmerabill slauchter was on all sidis 1533 Bell. Livy II 47/10.
The Ardeatis and Aricinis, eftir thai had invadit other mony ȝeris with batall, war sa brokin with athir slauchter, that [etc.] 1533 Boece 299b.
Arthure defendit slauchter … that he suld nocht be argunnit of inhumanite apoun captivis 1549 Compl. 5/23.
He purchessis pace … vitht out … slauchtir or hayrschip to be amang the pepil 1572-5 Diurn. Occurr. 297.
Gistis … wes … lattin fall on thame … be the quhilk thair wes greit slauchter to the nummber of xvij a1578 Pitsc. I 19/11.
The mischeif, slawchtar, baneisment [etc.] … quhilk the chancellar thocht to haue done to ws(b) a1400 Leg. S. xl 821.
[He] had the leding of the land, In vorschipe & slachtyr bath One Inglis-men to do skath 1397 Acts I 208/1.
That na man vse sik destrucciouns slachtir reif na bryning 1533 Boece 376.
Takin was all the nobilite that euadit the slachter and put in festinance 1596 Dalr. I 78/16.
The diligens … of this Thanaus thay vsed … to keip aback slachtir that vset … to brek furth(c) 1651 Nicoll Diary 59.
Eftir many assaltis and slaghter on both sydes … the Scottis airmy wer put to the wors(d) c1400 Troy-bk. ii 940.
Heleyne … Thrught whom such slaughtre … they had … Suffred a1578 Pitsc. I 46/27.
Slaughter and heirscheip rang … in his dayis a1578 Pitsc. II 43/34.
To defait so money men bot slaughter(e) 1549 Compl. 23/2.
The … distructione of oure nobil barrons … be cruel ande onmercyful slauthyr a1568 Bell. Bann. MS 367b/63.
And leivis in slawtter terranny and blude 1591–2 Cal. Sc. P. X 633.
[With] slatter [on both sides]transf. a1400 Leg. S. xxxiii 61 (see (2)).(2) ?1438 Alex. ii 4860.
He in armes … sic slauchter hes maid … That [etc.] c1475 Wall. v 930.
On Sotheron men full gret slauchter thai maid 1513 Doug. v xiii 98.
Sik multitude Of slauchtir he maid quhil Exanthus the flude Mycht fynd na way to ryn onto the see 1531 Bell. Boece II 417.
Seing the miserable slauchter that wes maid on thaim 1533 Boece 154.
Vtheris bering … iavillingis maid sa cruell slauchter 1533 Boece 362.
Litill slauchter in the bargane was made, bot in the chais horrible and large 1545 St. P. Henry VIII V 502.
Slachtir 1596 Dalr. I 193/1.
This … maid gret slachter amang the Pechtes — 1405 Douglas Corr. 64.
The brennynge, slachtyr and takynge of prisoneris … that is done be yhour men to Scottys men within the saide trewistransf. a1400 Leg. S. xxxiii 60.
Sic fellone slachtir ay mad he [sc. the serpent] Thru slachtir and corrupcion Of the ayre that he wald poyson(3) 1386 Rot. Sc. II 85/2.
Nowthir be brynnyng ne slaghter of men, … taking of castelx [etc.] … na nane othir harmes c1400 Troy-bk. ii 791 (C).
Cassandra … the slaughtre [D. slauthter] thar Of hyrris, that sleyne war, sorowed yhar c1400 Troy-bk. ii 1183 (C).
After Troyes distructioune … And the slaughtre of the citezanis 1409 Exch. R. IV ccx.
Alswa gif thar happynnis ony … riot among thair men that touchis … slachtir of men, thai sal … ger it be stanchit 1446 Raine N. Durham App. 22.
The manifest tressonable takyn off our castell of Dunbar … slawchtyr prisonyng oppressyon of our peple 1456 Hay I 54/14.
And thare was sik slauchter of men that pitee was to see 1531 Bell. Boece II 479.
The victory … was not but gret slauchter of his best capitanis: bot mair nowmer war slane of his contrapart 1533 Boece 70.
Britouns … abstenit fra slauchter of sic persouns as … war febill a1538 Abell 101a.
Sclawtir c1500-50 Brevis Cronica 330.
In his tyme was greit murthour and slauchter of innocentis 1562-3 Winȝet II 22/25.
Be our bluid we hef weschin away the slawchtir of the confessouris a1578 Pitsc. I 72/30.
He desyrit … at King Henrie sa mekill of Scottis ground as he might conquis in Scotland be the slaughter of the inhabitantis thairof — 1533 Bell. Livy I 56/28.
Nowthir this nor that side regardit thare propir damage or slauchtirb. 1375 Barb. xix 567.
Thai stabbit stekit and thai slew … A felloun slauchtir maid thai thair 1460 Hay Alex. 2947.
Bot thair was sic ane slauchter and a murth Off manis blud … That it was pitie 1513 Doug. ii vii 86.
A miserabil slauchtir thar begouth that nycht 1531 Bell. Boece I 125.
Followit, ane miserable slauchter on the flearis 1572-5 Diurn. Occurr. 246.
Ane infinite slauchter

3. pl. Variously const. in the above senses.(1) 1456 Hay II 86/32.
Inymitee makis weris and slauchteris 1473 Treas. Acc. I 48.
Lettres … for stanching of the slachteris and herschippis 1493 Crim. Trials I i 14.
Crimez, offensis, reffis, … slauchteris 1512 Crawford Mun. Invent. I 45 24 Apr.
Personis … delaitit of thee saidis slauthiris and crymes 1513 Doug. xii ix 4.
Quhat god sall now … me lern in metyr to declar Sa feill … slauchteris 1524 Treas. Acc. V 237.
ij lettres of slauchteris to call the committaris … to the xvj day of Aprile 1530 Montgomery Mem. 111.
Sclatteris 1530 Montgomery Mem. 111.
Sclattyr 1531 Bell. Boece I 40.
He … persewit his nobillis with slauchteris and banissing 1559 Cal. Sc. P. I 276.
Sclachters a1578 Pitsc. I 56/21.
Innumerabill slaughteris war maid 1651 Moray Synod 110.
The laird of Rothemay [to be put] to due satisfactione for two casuall slaughters(2) 1397 Acts I 208/1.
The grete & horrible destrucciouns heryschippis brynyngis & slachteris that ar sa commonly done throch al the kynrike 1494 (c1580) Edinb. B. Rec. I 68.
Thair hes bene sundrie slauchteris bene committit 1499 Fam. Rose 170.
Sclacteris 1502 Crim. Trials I i 30.
Robert Oliuer [etc.] … has committit diverse reiffis, hereschippis, slauchtaris [etc.] 1548 Crim. Trials I i 362.
Slaichteris 1554 Crim. Trials I i 373.
Slaychtiris

4. The butchering of domestic animals for food; an instance of this, esp., a particular episode or period of butchering. Also, with possess. pron., the activity as carried out by an individual butcher. Also const. for, of, to the slauchtir, chiefly fig.(1) 14.. Acts I 33/2.
Fleschewaris … sal serve the burges in tyme of slauchter that is to say fra the fest of Sayncte Martyne quhil Yhule 1510–11 Rentale Dunkeld. (SHS) 6.
[Account of George Brown … of ox-hides received by him in 1509, of] lie sclauchter [of that year] 1529 Exch. R. XV 681.
The vther skynnis viz. May scynnis and the winter slauchtir 1596 Paisley B. Rec. 180.
To by all beistiall for the slauchtir upon the equal expenssis and to slay the samin in the buthts(2) 1561–2 Treas. Acc. XI 112.
Lettres dischargeing the slauchter of lammis for thre ȝeris 1567 Acts III 30/2.
Ane artickle for slauchter of veilis and lambis(3) 1655 Edinb. B. Rec. VIII 383.
The haill fleshers … who are not burgesis … to remove furth of this brugh with their slaughter 1661 Glasgow B. Rec. II 475.
The ruch tallyow they [sc. fleshers] had and is made be them of their awine slaughter(4) 1595 Skene in Misc. Stair Soc. I 144.
iiii bow of ky and i^c and xl yeild nolt for slauchter as neid sall requirefig. c1520-c1535 Nisbet Rom. viii 36.
We are gessit as schepe of slauchtire [P. slauȝtir] 1590-1 R. Bruce Serm. 166.
As for the fed-marts of this world, the Lord … has appointed them for slaughter c1650 P. Gordon Brit. Dist. 25.
As sheepe broght furth to the slaighter

5. attrib. With sheip, ky, etc. a. (About to be) earmarked for slaughter. b. (Having been) slaughtered. c. With skins, etc., ? specif. as sold by the butcher from a newly slaughtered beast (see quot. Edinb. B. Rec.). d. With hous, also fig.a., b. 1562 Kinnaird Farm Bk. 16b.
The skynis of daid and slachter scheip 1563 Kinnaird Farm Bk. 20b.
Delywerit … to be slachter scheip, of ram and rigat xix 1564 Dunlop P. II 339.
Twa slauchtir ky price of ilk kow ourheid iij lib. sax s. viij d. 1586 Edinb. Test. XVI 330.
Tua slauchter oxin price of the pece fyve li. vj s. viij d. 1603 Reg. Great S. 514/2.
Pittie custumes … of ilk slauchter scheip 2 penneis 1612 Stirling B. Rec. I 132.
Ilk slauchter kow passing langis the brig … tua penneis 1645 Rutherford Tryal Faith (1845) 43.
It should be but the logic of a beast if the slaughter ox should say [etc.] 1654 Conv. Burghs III 388. 1673 Kirkcudbr. Test. (Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct.) 16 Jan.
Two slachter weeddersfig. a1585 Maitl. Q. 148/180.
Ȝour onlie sone quha semed a slauchter scheip … He did conserue a1585 Maitl. Q. 194/117.
To sell the saikles as ane slauchter mairtc. 1548 Perth Guildry p. 256 (11 May).
Tha coft fra Robert Derynocht … thre hundreth and ane ½^c of slauhter kyd skynnis 1562 Kinnaird Farm Bk. 11b.
Slauchter skynis 1581 Edinb. B. Rec. IV 226.
Anent the flescheouris and … the selling of skynis and hydis … that the said flesche haif the hyde stikking with the carcage [etc.] … that … the saidis skinyis … be … brocht to the oppin mercattis … that na merchantis … that lykis to bye ony skynnis or hydis fra the flescheoures … by thair slawchter skynis or hyddis before hand 1582 Edinb. Test. XI 161b.
Of blak lamb skynnis … of slauchter kyd skynnis 1599 Edinb. B. Rec. V 260.
All fleschouris … sall caus bring … to the merkettis all thair slawchter skynnis in somer before aucht hourisd. a1633 Hope Major Pract. I 41.
[That no] fleshers be sufered to have slaughter houses … [within the city boundaries] 1676 Edinb. B. Rec. X 274.
To remove the fleshers slawchterhousses to the North Loch sydfig. 1571 Cal. Sc. P. III 640.
[To my own country I cannot go, unless I would] wittyngly ryne into the slhawchter hous [for I am] put to the horine

6. The killing of animals more generally.For a similar range of usage cf. Sla v. 9 a-d. 1473 Prestwick B. Rec. 23.
The slachtir of a brandit kow 1482 Acta Aud. 99/2.
The actioune … anent the spulȝe & slauchter of ij^c gymmyr & dynmont 1503 Acts II 242/2.
Anent the slauchter of red fische in foreboding tyme [etc.] 1535 Stewart 16861.
He … with mony lordis met … With greit doggis for slauchter of the deir 15.. Clar. i 1113.
The king … thankit him … For slauchter of the lyoun 1557 Digest Justiciary Proc. B 140.
Fylit of the cryme … for cuming to the Linkis … with nettis … for slauchter of cwningis 1559 Inverness Rec. I 32.
Thom Crone … is mad fre of the slachtyr of Hendre Kar geys 1590 Crim. Trials I ii 206.
The said Jonett Grant … to be fylit … of the crewall murthour of vmquhile Alexander Abircrumbie … be wichcraft … and of the slauchter and distructioune of saxtene heid of nolt 1627 Old Ross-shire II 34.
Malcolme R. confesses the slachter of blackfishfig. 1644 Petrie Chiliasto-Mastix 60.
After the slauchter of the beast