单词 | eggery |
释义 | eggeryn. A collection of eggs; an establishment for producing eggs. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > poultry-keeping > [noun] > enclosure for poultry > laying house, hatchery, etc. rearing house1824 sitting room1850 hatchery1857 brooding-room1884 eggery1910 laying house1913 battery1931 1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. Eggery, a nest of eggs. 1910 Daily Chron. 21 Mar. 4/7 A Western Canadian paper declares that next to the discovery of a gold-mine the most profitable investment is the ‘importation of a batch of well-disposed hens and the establishment of an up-to-date eggery’. 1938 Reader's Digest Mar. 93/1 An Arndt eggery consisting of four sections. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1846 |
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