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grainery

grainery is the obsolete form of granary.

Meaning of granary

Noun

granary (plural granaries or (obsolete) granarys)

  1. A storage facility for grain or sometimes animal feed.
    • For a long time the dormouse and polecat had seemed to him overfeeble enemies for his restless valour, even as the granary floor seemed to afford too narrow a field. Every day he read the papers of the previous day in the servants' hall of the houses he visited, and it appeared to him that this war...1837, George Sand, translated by Stanley Young, Mauprat, Cassandra Editions, published 1977, →ISBN, page 237
  2. (figuratively) A fertile, grain-growing region.
    Synonyms:
    breadbasket

Forms of grainery

pluralgraineries

Questions about grainery

What is grainery the obsolete form of?
Grainery is the obsolete form of granary.

Words near grainery in the dictionary

  1. grained
  2. grained up
  3. grainer
  4. graineries
  5. grainers
  6. grainery
  7. graines
  8. grainfall
  9. grainfalls
  10. grainfield
  11. grainfields

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