“pullery”的英英意思

单词 pullery
释义 I. ˈpullery1 Obs.
Forms: 5 pulare, 6 pullery, -rye, -rie, 7 pullary.
[app. a. F. poulerie a place in which fowls are reared = poultry 2.]
A place where fowls are reared; also, domestic fowls collectively; = poultry 2, 3.
1488Acta Dom. Conc. (1839) 90/2, xviij pulare price of þe pece iij d.1535Bp. Gardiner in Chron. Calais (Camden) 165 That such pullery and wylde-foule maye passe by Graveling as ye require.1552Huloet, Pultrye or pullerye feadynge at large, pascilis, passalis.Ibid., Pullerye keper, gallinarius.1592Nashe P. Penilesse (1593) 30 b, They..had in one night..all the whole progenie of their Pullerie taken away.1657Reeve God's Plea 59 Thou art afraid of kites for thy pullary.
II. pullery2 Tanning.|ˈpʊlərɪ|
[f. pull v. + -ery.]
The place in which wool, hair, and bristles are removed from hides.
1903L. A. Flemming Pract. Tanning 1 The relations between the soaking process and the subsequent processes of the beamhouse or pullery, and the tannery are close.1963E. M. Pohle in W. von Bergen Wool Handbk. (ed. 3) I. ix. 668 The pulling is conducted in the pulleries which..are connected with the large slaughter-houses.
III. pullery
obs. form of pillory.

 

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