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coninger

coninger is the alternative form of conyger.

Meaning of conyger

Noun

conyger (plural conygers)

  1. (historical) A rabbit warren; an enclosed piece of land set aside for breeding and raising rabbits.
    • Mr. Stumpe pulled down other portions to make streets to house his workmen, so within a century after, the Tourist, whom I have quoted before, saw "only ruins of that large, spacious, strong, and famous abbey on the north side of the church, to manifest what her beauty was in her flourishing time."...1876, Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott, Benedictine Abbey of S. Aldhelm, Malmesbury, page 35

Forms of coninger

pluralconingers

Questions about coninger

What is coninger the alternative form of?
Coninger is the alternative form of conyger.

Words near coninger in the dictionary

  1. Conimere
  2. conine
  3. conines
  4. coning
  5. coning off
  6. coninger
  7. Coningham
  8. Coningsby
  9. Conington
  10. Coningtons
  11. coniocyst

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coninger (page history and authors); conyger (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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