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shochet

[ Sephardic Hebrew shaw-khet; Ashkenazic Hebrew shoh-kheyt, shoi-khit; English shoh-khit ]

noun

Hebrew.
plural shochetim English shochets.


shochet

/ 藞蕛蓲x蓻t; 藞蕛蓲k蓻t /

noun

  1. (in Judaism) a person who has been specially trained and licensed to slaughter animals and birds in accordance with the laws of shechita
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of shochet1

C19: from Hebrew, literally: slaughtering
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Example Sentences

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For larger animals, our community would employ the help of a shochet, who would kill the goat or cow and prepare it according to our laws.

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He drew me against him and angled the shochet鈥檚 knife across my throat.

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Adriane Shochet, 64, of Lake Worth, Fla., bought a $14 broomstick, which she attached to an American flag and waved as she stood on the causeway that overlooks part of Mar-a-Lago.

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The ordinarily vegetarian Nussbaum had eaten a farm-raised chicken the night before I met them, after watching the bird ritually killed in the kosher manner by a shochet.

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A shochet, someone trained and certified to slaughter animals according to Jewish tradition, whets a knife on increasingly fine stones before drawing the blade across a fingernail to feel for any imperfections in the steel that might inhibit a smooth, clean cut and cause unnecessary pain.

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