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schindery

schindery noun: a facility in which animal carcasses are rendered into useful by-products, such as hides, fertilizer, soap, etc.; a rendering plant.

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
    • Previous to the outbreak at West Elizabeth the Board had, at the urgent request of Crosby Gray, Esq., the efficient and energetic health officer of Pittsburgh, made an investigation into the condition of certain bone-boiling establishments, known in the dialect of that region as "schinderies,"...1887, Benjamin Lee, “Note on an Epidemic of Typhoid Fever at South Pittsburgh”, in Pennsylvania State Board of Health, Second Annual Report of the State Board of Health and Vital Statistics of the...

Synonyms of schindery

Forms of schindery

pluralschinderies

Origin of schindery

Probably from German Schinder (“person who renders animal carcasses”) + -ery (“place of”).

Questions about schindery

What does schindery mean?
Schindery means a facility in which animal carcasses are rendered into useful by-products, such as hides, fertilizer, soap, etc.; a rendering plant.
What part of speech is schindery?
Schindery is a noun.
What is the plural of schindery?
The plural of schindery is schinderies.

Words near schindery in the dictionary

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

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