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gulleries

gulleries is the plural of gullery.

Meaning of gullery

Noun

gullery (countable and uncountable, plural gulleries)

  1. (archaic) An act, or the practice, of gulling i.e. trickery, cheating or fraud.
  2. A colony of gulls.
    • Gulls seem to fear the great skua less than the Arctic one, and will sometimes mob and molest it. A single pair that had nested on the outskirts of a gullery were a good deal subject to this annoyance.1901, Edmund Selous, Bird Watching, page 128

Questions about gulleries

What is gulleries the plural of?
Gulleries is the plural of gullery.

Words near gulleries in the dictionary

  1. Gullatts
  2. gulled
  3. Gulledge
  4. Gulledges
  5. guller
  6. gulleries
  7. gullers
  8. gullery
  9. gullet
  10. gullet sweetbread
  11. gullet sweetbreads

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