Usually means: Predatory bird, impales prey sharply.
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  1. butcherbird: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. butcherbird: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. butcherbird: Collins English Dictionary
  4. butcherbird: Vocabulary.com
  5. butcherbird: Wiktionary
  6. butcherbird: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. butcherbird: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. butcherbird: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. butcherbird: Dictionary.com
  10. Butcherbird (disambiguation), Butcherbird: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. butcherbird: Rhymezone
  12. butcherbird: FreeDictionary.org
  13. butcherbird: Mnemonic Dictionary
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(Note: See butcherbirds as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (butcherbird)

noun:  Any of the magpie-like birds in the genus Cracticus, family Artamidae, of Australia and New Guinea.
noun:  (US) Any of the shrikes in the genus Lanius.
noun:  (South Africa) The fiscal shrike, Lanius collaris.

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