tealery
tealery noun: an enclosure for housing teal before they are killed and eaten.
Noun
tealery (plural tealeries)
- An enclosure for housing teal before they are killed and eaten.
- Here are the fowl-house and the sheep-house, and the goat-house, and the cow-house, and the tealery, and the quailery, and the columbarie, and the extensive godowns, and all the other adjuncts of a large Anglo-Indian establishment of the olden time.1891, Robert Edward Forrest, Eight Days, page 33
- In Behar every prudent English resident keeps a quailery, as well as a tealery, on his premises, and a dish of fat quail is a very agreeable and wholesome change of diet when the weather is hot.1891 March, C.T. Buckland, “Some Birds in India”, in Longman's Magazine, volume 17
Forms of tealery
| plural | tealeries |
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Origin of tealery
From teal + -ery.
Questions about tealery
- What does tealery mean?
- Tealery means an enclosure for housing teal before they are killed and eaten.
- What part of speech is tealery?
- Tealery is a noun.
- What is the plural of tealery?
- The plural of tealery is tealeries.
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