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schinderies

schinderies is the plural of schindery.

Meaning of schindery

Noun

schindery (plural schinderies)

  1. (Pennsylvania, Western, dialectal, obsolete) A facility in which animal carcasses are rendered into useful by-products, such as hides, fertilizer, soap, etc.; a rendering plant.
    • It is the rendering establishment of Dr. E. L. Czarnieki, the City Fallmaster. It is better known to the daily newspaper reader as the schindery, a German term which like that of Dr. Czarnieki's office—Fallmaster—is unknown to Webster's unabridged. It is at the schindery where the carcasses picked...1881 February 23, “Beats Cremation”, in The Daily Post, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, page 4

Questions about schinderies

What is schinderies the plural of?
Schinderies is the plural of schindery.

Words near schinderies in the dictionary

  1. Schimmelpenning syndrome
  2. Schimmelpenning-Feuerstein-Mims syndrome
  3. Schimmelpfennig
  4. Schimpf
  5. Schimpfs
  6. schinderies
  7. schindery
  8. Schindler
  9. schindleriid
  10. schindleriids
  11. Schindlers

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