studderyn.
/ˈstʌd(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈstəd(ə)ri/ Now somewhat rare.
An establishment where horses or other domesticated animals are kept for breeding; a stud farm.
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1582 A. Grey Let. 27 Jan. in E. Spenser Sel. Lett. & Other Papers (2009) xxviii. 148 The great studderies that I shulld guyue.
1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) iii. i. 220/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I King Henrie the eight erected a noble studderie and for a time had verie good successe with them.
1837 Age 16 Apr. 127/1 The Noble Marquis heading the party, mounted on a real Jerusalem charger, captured by the Waterford Invincibles, from the adjoining cow-studdery of Simon Cox.
1847 Trans. N.-Y. State Agric. Soc. 1846 6 490 And the studderies scattered over the land..have, within a short period, accomplished much in raising the standard of excellence for this noble animal [sc. the horse].
1892 Hutchinson (Kansas) Daily News 11 June 2/1 I am building a house and studdery here on the estate.
1935 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 10 June 21/8 Then they would take a walk to the Experiment Station where some pigs were collected in the studdery.
2010 Queensland Times (Nexis) 11 Nov. 17 Mrs Beasley said it was a collection started by chance by her father Ron Jurgensen, who owned and ran the Killdare Pig Studdery at Wyaralong.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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