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pinery|ˈpaɪnərɪ|
[f. pine n.2 + -ery.]
1. A place in which pine-apples are grown.
1758J. Ralph Authors by Profession 41 All must have their Fooleries as well as their Pinaries. 1787Olla Podrida No. 42 (1788) 425 The Pleasure of seeing Green-houses and Pineries arise. 1858Glenny Gard. Every-day Bk. 207/1 Separate vineries, forcing-houses, pineries, and hot-pits.
2. A plantation or grove of pine-trees. Also attrib. Chiefly N. Amer.
1783Rep. Bureau Arch. Ontario (1906) III. p. cxx, There are fine pineries two or three miles from the water's edge where large masts may be procured. 1822Massachusetts Spy 6 Feb. (Th.), There are also a few pineries, but of small extent. 1831J. Porter Sir E. Seaward's Narr. II. 160 Our pines in the dell formed an infant pinery. 1882Harper's Mag. Dec. 12/1 When the timber shall have been stripped from the pineries of Maine. 1926Amer. Speech II. 100/2 The lumberjacks have found anthologists who appreciate better than did the singers themselves the charm of the pinery songs. 1952D. F. Putnam Canad. Regions 138/1 Its ‘pineries’ formed the source of much of the timber which came down the Ottawa River. |