abattoir
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2015 1:39 pm
by William Hupy
Look how this sophisticated appearing word has a common ancestor with battery and abate, meaning to beat down or end in some fashion.
Re: abattoir
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 5:50 pm
by Perry Lassiter
For whatever reason, "killing fields" comes to mind. Then as a child, I remember living in olfactory distance of the Ft Worth stockyards.