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Piggery  n.  (pl. piggeries)  A place where swine are kept.






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"Piggery" Quotes from Famous Books



... courtyard was surrounded by substantial buildings. To the right was the great hall, with the kitchens and storehouses. Across the inner side stood the women's house, with the herb-garden on one hand, and the guest-chambers on the other. To the left were the stables, the piggery, the sheep-houses, the ...
— The Thrall of Leif the Lucky • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz

... they are dirt-loving animals is quite a mistake; none more thoroughly enjoy a good litter of clean straw. I was glad to find this good woman entirely of the same opinion. She informed me with evident satisfaction that fresh straw was always thrown down on one side of the piggery at night, and that the animals always selected ...
— In the Heart of the Vosges - And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" • Matilda Betham-Edwards

... island. Sir Hudson was shocked at seeing the place reverted back to a worse state than it was previous to the exiles being forced into it. Then it was a dirty, unwholesome barn, overrun with vermin; now it was worse than a piggery. The aspect touched a tender chord in this man who had been the cause of making the Emperor's compulsory sojourn ...
— The Tragedy of St. Helena • Walter Runciman

... shown over the cattery, the piggery, the milkers, and the kennelry, as Mrs. Mortimer called her live stock departments. None was large. All were moneymakers, she assured them, and rattled off her profits glibly. She took their breaths away by the prices given and received for pedigreed ...
— The Valley of the Moon • Jack London

... "Here is the piggery," continued M. Bruno, showing a tumble-down old place in front of the left wing of the cloister, surrounded by palisades; ...
— En Route • J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

... we spent in a pleasure cruise amongst the three hundred and sixty—five islands, many of them not above an acre in extent—fancy an island of an acre in extent!—with a solitary house, a small garden, a red—skinned family, a piggery, and all around clear deep pellucid water. None of the islands, or islets, rise to any great height, but they all shoot precipitously out of the water, as if the whole group, had originally been one huge platform of rock, with numberless grooves subsequently ...
— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott



Words linked to "Piggery" :   farm, pig farm



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