shohet
or sho·chet
[ 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 /
noun, plural shohe·tim [shohkh-teem] /ʃoʊxˈtim/, English sho·hets. Hebrew.
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.
Origin of shohet
shōḥēṭ literally, one who slaughters
Words nearby shohet
shogi,
shogun,
shogun bond,
shogunate,
shoguns,
shohet,
shoji,
sholapur,
sholem aleichem,
sholes,
sholokhov