Quailery
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A structure in which one houses quail that are kept as a food animal.
"A quailery should be dark (or the mailes will be always fighting), light being let in at early morning, at noon, and towards sunset, and the birds fed each time."
Example
More examples"A quailery should be dark (or the mailes will be always fighting), light being let in at early morning, at noon, and towards sunset, and the birds fed each time."
Etymology
From quail + -ery.
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