cheeseryn.
/ˈtʃiːz(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈtʃizəri/ A place where cheese is made, esp. as a commercial enterprise; a cheese factory.
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1836 New Eng. Farmer 13 July 4/3 Dark rooms and screens are useless appendages to a cheesery.
1883 Harper's Mag. Apr. 692/2 From the upper stories of these cheeseries were long gutters leading to the ships.
1919 Creamery & Milk Plant Monthly Mar. 29/1 The Peacock Cheesery at Platterville, Wis., was damaged $25,000 by fire.
1985 Sunday Times 21 Apr. 20/8 At first I thought it must be something to do with my new equipment... But then we realised that even some old village cheeseries were affected.
2008 C. Bishop Case of Ill-gotten Goat xi. 151 The barn help went straight from the milking parlor to the cheesery.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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