Can provide meat, but cherries are beyond him! (7)

I believe the answer is:

butcher

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(Other definitions for butcher that I've seen before include "Kill brutally" , "Meat-seller" , "more masculine?" , "One sells meat" , "In EastEnders, Pat maybe" .)

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