Butcher

A butcher was involved in the sale of meat.

In 1400, Jud Hacker was a butcher. He had previously been an executioner. (AUDIO: The Doctor's Tale)

In the 1650s, the father of Beatrix Butcher was a butcher at the village of Tranchard's Fell. (AUDIO: The Witch from the Well)

In the 1900s, Ernie Wright was a butcher in London. (PROSE: Birthright)

In the 1920s, Mr Giardano worked as a butcher in Little Italy in New York City. (TV: Immortal Sins)

Mr Bayles worked as a butcher in Crook Marsham from 1938 until he was killed by the Sentience in December 1968. (PROSE: Nightshade)

In 1941, Nancy threatened Arthur Lloyd by telling him she would make public her knowledge that it was him, not his wife, who was having an affair with Mr Haversock, the butcher. (TV: The Doctor Dances)

As a metaphor
The word "butcher" was also used to describe someone infamous for acts of brutality.

Brigadeführer Kraus of the SS earned a reputation as the Butcher of Krakow for acts committed in the city during Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland at the beginning of the Second World War. (PROSE: Illegal Alien)

The Butcher of Zircaster was killed by Kaston Iago. (AUDIO: Taren Capel)

In the 51st century, Magnus Greel's massacre of approximately a hundred thousand people earned him the nickname the "Butcher of Brisbane." (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)