Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cow-house, dairy, or cow-pasture. See
vachery .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Obs. or Prov. Eng. A cow house, dairy house, or cow pasture.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A place where cows or
cattle are kept;dairy farm.
Etymologies
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From Latin vacca ("cow") + -ary
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Examples
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In the near distance north-east are the buildings which occupy the site of the vaccary of Bardney Abbey, still called Bardney Dairies, and said to have been the original position of the abbey itself, before its destruction by the Danes.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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