Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An artificial bed of animal matter for the formation of niter; a place where niter is refined.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An artificial bed of animal matter for the manufacture of niter by nitrification. See
nitrification , 2.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
artificial bed ofanimal matter for themanufacture ofnitre bynitrification .
Etymologies
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From nitre and -ary.
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Examples
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Altamont looked at the flume, a rough structure of logs lined with sheet aluminum, and at the nitriary, a shed-roofed pit in which potassium nitrate was extracted from the community's animal refuse.
The Return H. Beam Piper 1934
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Altamont additionally looked at the flume, a rough structure of logs lined with sheet aluminum; and at the nitriary, a shed-roofed pit in which potassium nitrate was extracted from the community's animal refuse.
The Return H. Beam Piper 1934
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