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A farm where pigs are raised or kept
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piggery
Word definitions for piggery in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 a place, such as a farm, where pigs are kept or raised 2 piggish behaviour
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a farm where pigs are raised or kept [syn: pig farm ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Piggery \Pig"ger*y\, n.; pl. Piggeries . A place where swine are kept.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ For forty days she banishes him to the stables and piggeries. ▪ I didn't anticipate spending days mucking out some of the dirtiest piggeries I had ever seen. ▪ In 1278 the abbot's men destroyed a piggery belonging to the bishop ...
Usage examples of piggery.
One way to reach Caulms Wood beyond the recreation ground was to cut through a piggery at the top of Camroyd Street.
Fast as he ran the children had reached the piggery before he could overtake them, and he arrived just in time to see Olivia, wondering but unprotesting, hauled and pushed up to the roof of the nearest sty.
They were shown over the cattery, the piggery, the milkers, and the kennelry, as Mrs.
One day, on visiting my piggery, I was amazed to see Catholicus draw back from my approach with cries of terror.
She had a vision of rock squat farms taking over from the piggeries on the Secaucus meadows, and Murray as a squat farmer.
I'm sure we got this saltpeter at home, in barns and piggeries and what not.