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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
piggery
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 in Godney Moor, and again in 1315.
▪ It was some time before we retrieved them and went into the piggery.
▪ It was used as a piggery and the stench hovered about it.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Piggery

Piggery \Pig"ger*y\, n.; pl. Piggeries. A place where swine are kept.

Wiktionary
piggery

n. 1 a place, such as a farm, where pigs are kept or raised 2 piggish behaviour

WordNet
piggery

n. a farm where pigs are raised or kept [syn: pig farm]

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.