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quaileries

quaileries is the plural of quailery.

Meaning of quailery

Noun

quailery (plural quaileries)

  1. A structure in which one houses quail that are kept as a food animal.
    • A quailery should be dark (or the mailes will be always fighting), light being let in at early morning, at noon, and towards sunset, and the birds fed each time.1880, Allan Octavian Hume, The Game Birds of India, Burmah, and Ceylon, page 142

Questions about quaileries

What is quaileries the plural of?
Quaileries is the plural of quailery.

Words near quaileries in the dictionary

  1. quail-thrushes
  2. quailberry
  3. Quaile
  4. quailed
  5. quailer
  6. quaileries
  7. quailers
  8. quailery
  9. quailest
  10. quaileth
  11. quailfinch

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