slaughtering

slaughtering

1. present participle and gerund of slaughter

slaughtering (plural slaughterings)

1. An act of slaughter; a killing.
   • 1970, New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, volume 13, number 1, page 129:

     Towards the end of each trial (approximately July), when the Hock had been markedly depleted by mortalities and the successive group slaughterings, the remaining animals were confined to one paddock.