knacker

A noun referring to a person who buys and breaks up old buildings or ships to salvage materials, or someone who buys old horses for slaughter.

• 🇨🇳名词，指收购并拆解旧建筑或旧船只以获取材料的人，也指收购老马加以宰杀的人。

1. Salvage dealer C1 formal british

   A person who purchases old buildings or ships and dismantles them to recover and sell the materials.

   • The knacker bought the abandoned warehouse for its steel beams.
   • He worked as a knacker, breaking down old ships for scrap metal.
   • The knacker's yard was full of salvaged timber and bricks.

   🇨🇳旧料商

   同义词: salvagerwrecker

2. Horse slaughterer C1 formal british

   A person who buys old, injured, or unwanted horses to slaughter them for their meat, hide, or other by-products.

   • The old racehorse was sold to a knacker.
   • Knackers were once common in rural areas for disposing of worn-out horses.
   • The knacker's trade has declined with modern animal welfare laws.

   🇨🇳马屠夫

• knackers plural form
• knackers' possessive plural form
• knacker's possessive singular form