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vaccary Now only Hist.|ˈvækərɪ| Also 5–6 vaccarie, 6 vaccharie, 7 vacharie. [ad. med.L. vaccaria, f. L. vacca cow. Cf. vachery, and Pg. vacaria herd of cows.] A place where cows are kept or pastured; a dairy-farm.
1471in Archaeol. XLVII. 195 Th'issues, prouffites, and revenues coming..of the ferme of the vaccarie of Sleigholme. 1545Act 37 Hen. VIII, c. 16 One parcell of lond called the Vaccharie, conteyninge by estimacion threscore Acres. 1594Crompton Jurisd. 194 Without warrant no subiect may haue within the forest a vaccarie. 1656Blount Glossogr., Vaccary, alias vacharie, seemes to be a house to keep kine or cowes in. [Hence in Phillips, etc.] 1815Dickson Lancashire 13 The Forest of Wyersdale..being distributed into twelve different tracts..which still retain the ancient title of vaccaries or cow-pastures. [1863J. R. Walbran Mem. Fountains Abbey (Surtees) 343 note, To render annually of the profits of the vaccary twenty six stones eight pounds of butter.] |