shochet
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 15
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 7
/ˈʃoʊxɛt/
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/ˈʃoʊxɛt/ · /ˌʃoʊˈxɛt/
Definition of shochet
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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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 […]”
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Etymology
From Hebrew שׁוֹחֵט (shokhét, “slaughterer, butcher”).
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