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acatery

acatery is the alternative form of acatry.

Meaning of acatry

Noun

acatry

  1. (historical) A room or place used to store provisions purchased for the king.
    • A look at the monthly provisions for the queen's table from only two departments, the acatry and the poultry, suggests that the courts arrival must have depopulated the wildlife in surrounding counties to supply it.1999, Mary Hill Cole, The Portable Queen: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Ceremony, page 44

Forms of acatery

pluralacateries

Questions about acatery

What is acatery the alternative form of?
Acatery is the alternative form of acatry.

Words near acatery in the dictionary

  1. acatastatic
  2. acategorical
  3. acater
  4. acateries
  5. acaters
  6. acatery
  7. acates
  8. acathectic
  9. acathexia
  10. acathexis
  11. acathisia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: acatery (page history and authors); acatry (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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