occupational name for a slaughterer of animals, from
Middle English slahter (an agent derivative of slaht
‘killing’).
topographic name from Middle English sloghtre
‘boggy place’, or a habitational name from a place named with this
term (Old English slohtre), for example Upper and Lower
Slaughter in Gloucestershire.
topographic name for someone who
lived by a blackthorn or sloe, Old English slahtreow.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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