boilery

Noun

boilery (plural boileries)

1. A buisness (and place of business) that engages primarily in boiling, such as in the boiling of sugarcane juice to make sugar, the boiling of brine to make salt, the boiling of soap or tallow, the boiling of bones to make glue, etc.
   • Holonyms: saltworks; sugarhouse
   • By the grant of a boilery of salt it is said that the soil passes, for it is the whole profit of the soil, and the water being fixed in a certain place within the bounds and compass of the well is considered a part of the soil.1886, Arthur George Sedgwick, Frederick Scott Wait, A Treatise on the Trial of Title to Land, page 67

   Synonyms:

   boiling-house

2. A room or area where there is equipment for boiling that is part of a larger establishment, such as equipment for rendering blubber on board a whaling vessel, or vats for boiling laundry as part of a large farmhouse.
   • The time has gone by when a boilery for urine was regarded as indispensable for a physician's scientific progress, and I dare say we are all grateful for this deliverance.1875, Theodore Juergensen, “Croupous Pneumonia, Catarrhal Pneumonia, Hypostatic Processes in the Lungs, and Embolic Pneumonia”, in Cyclopædia of the Practice of Medicine - Volume 5, page 98
   • The Factory is placed in the 'tween deck, i.e., aft the blubber boilery, and forward of it the press boilery and Hartmann apparatus.1931, Transactions - North East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, volume 47, page 142