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distillery|dɪˈstɪlərɪ|
[f. prec.: see -ery.]
†1. The action or art of distilling; = distillation 3. Obs.
1677Evelyn Mem. (1857) II. 123 He and his lady (who is very curious in distillery) entertained me..very freely. 1757W. Thompson R.N. Advoc. 44 Skill'd in that noble Science of Distillery. 1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. ii. vi. 309 Irish husbandry did not yet provide corn for the distillery of aqua vitæ.
2. A place for distilling; the establishment or works in which the distilling of spirits is carried on.
1759B. Martin Sure Guide Distillers p. ii, A community which not only imports great quantities of..spirits from abroad, but employs such an extensive distillery at home entirely on that subject. 1765Ann. Reg. 102 A large drain..through which the water flowed a considerable way from a distillery. 1830M. Donovan Dom. Econ. I. 253 The distillery was a very small thatched cabin. 1833N. Arnott Physics (ed. 5) II. 195 An illicit distillery has been discovered by the exciseman happening..to look across a hole used as the chimney.
3. attrib. and Comb.; distillery-fed (of cattle, etc.), fed on spent grains, wash, etc. obtained from a distillery.
1816J. Scott Vis. Paris (ed. 5) App. 310 The new distillery apparatus of M. Adam. 1829Hey Gauger in Lond. Encycl. (1829) VII. 323 A wash-back or other distillery utensil. 1861Times 10 Oct., Distillery grains and wash are given [to cows], with straw-chaff and roots. 1881Chicago Times 4 June, Fat distillery-fed bulls. |