slaughterhouse, shambles, abattoir (a place where animals are slaughtered) · slaughterhouse, carnage (the scene of a massacre)
çekim: çoğul vágóhidak
köken: vágó (“slaughtering”) + híd (“bridge”), the latter because old slaughterhouses were usually built over a stream for easy cleaning. Calque of German Schlachtbrücke.