(1):

(v. t.) To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts.

(2):

(v. t.) To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle.

(3):

(v. t.) The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage.

(4):

(v. t.) The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market.

(5):

(v. t.) The act of killing.