shochet

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

/ Sephardic Hebrew ʃɔˈxɛt; Ashkenazic Hebrew ˈʃoʊ xeɪt, ˈʃɔɪ xɪt; English ˈʃoʊ xɪt /

shohet.

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shohet

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

/ Sephardic Hebrew ʃɔˈxɛt; Ashkenazic Hebrew ˈʃoʊ xeɪt, ˈʃɔɪ xɪt; English ˈʃoʊ xɪt /

a person certified by a rabbi or Jewish court of law to slaughter animals for food in the manner prescribed by Jewish law.

Compare shehitah.

shōḥēṭ literally, one who slaughters

Occasionally (he smiles) there is a dispute—only it is for the honor of God—between him and the Shochet.

Stories and Pictures |Isaac Loeb Peretz
My comrade's father, the "Shochet," was asleep, and the little girl sat at the door and waited.

Jewish Children |Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich
Even the Shochet sometimes goes away for a whole week, so when should they find time to quarrel?

Stories and Pictures |Isaac Loeb Peretz
In the Shochet's house there is a female lodger; she pays fifteen rubles a year.

Stories and Pictures |Isaac Loeb Peretz

I cannot ask Sophie to buy me any, and the Shochet's wife has given birth to a baby, and is not yet about again.

Stories and Pictures |Isaac Loeb Peretz

shochet

/ (ˈʃɒkɛt, ˈʃɒxɛt) /

(in Judaism) a person who has been specially trained and licensed to slaughter animals and birds in accordance with the laws of shechita

C19: from Hebrew, literally: slaughtering