porkery

Noun

porkery (plural porkeries)

1. A place that sells pork.
   • Recently another disease, a most fatal one, has been found to arise from eating swine’s flesh, a disease that takes into the human body live animaculæ, called Trichinœ. There were so many cases of this horrid disease for the last year or two, that a very decided decrease in the sale of pork, at...1869 October 1, W. M. Cornell, “Editorial Department”, in Good Health. A Journal of Physical and Mental Culture., volume 1, number 5, Boston, Mass.: Alexander Moore, →OCLC, page 237, column 1
   • I’m not after meat; when I want that I’ll go to a porkery. Sport’s what I’m after; when I shoot at anything that wears feathers it must be on the wing.1881 January 29, Birdo [pseudonym], “My Favorite ‘Weakness’”, in N[icholas] Rowe, editor, Chicago Field: The American Sportsman’s Journal, volume XIV, number 25, Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Field...
2. Synonym of piggery.
   • In the packing season of 1860–’61 upward of three million head of hogs were packed at the various porkeries of the United States, besides those packed by farmers at home, of which less than twenty thousand were packed at regular establishments south of the lines of our armies. […] Tennessee then...1862 January, a report made to the Confederate Congress in Richmond; quoted in Edward A[lfred] Pollard, The Lost Cause; a New Southern History of the War of the Confederates. […], New York, N.Y.: E....
   • Each of our units maintains a small farm, primarily a porkery and a poultry farm.1986 December 5, Laszlo Szabo, quoting Ferenc Karpati, “Defense Minister Reviews Recent Developments in Military”, in East Europe Report (JPRS-EER-86-185), Springfield, Va.: Joint Publications...

   Synonyms:

   piggery