Gullery
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 An act, or the practice, of gulling i.e. trickery, cheating or fraud. archaic, countable, uncountable
- 2 A colony of gulls. countable, uncountable
"Gulls seem to fear the great skua less than the Arctic one, and will sometimes mob and molest it. A single pair that had nested on the outskirts of a gullery were a good deal subject to this annoyance."
Example
More examples"Gulls seem to fear the great skua less than the Arctic one, and will sometimes mob and molest it. A single pair that had nested on the outskirts of a gullery were a good deal subject to this annoyance."
Etymology
From gull + -ery.
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