dairyn.
/ˈdɛːri/, U.S. /ˈdɛri/ 1. (a) A room or building in which milk and cream are kept, and made into butter and cheese. (b) Sometimes in towns the name is assumed by a shop in which milk, cream, etc. are sold.
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the world > food and drink > food > place for storing food > [noun] > for dairy products
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milkhouse1554
cheese house1588
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > dairy
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dey-house1342
dairy-house1530
milkhouse1554
milkness1691
milk room1698
butter dairy1784
cheesery1836
creamery1872
society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop selling provisions > dairy produce
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milkhouse1554
lactarium1809
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 192/14 Hire deierie was euere of chese and botere bar and swiþe lene.
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 192/14 For þare nas in þe deierie nouȝt adel of none ȝwite.
c1386 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale 15 Thropes, beernys, shipnes, dayrys.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 117 Deyrye, vaccaria.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 3 As my Foldes..or my Dayrie and Fishpondes wyl yeelde.
a1637 B. Jonson Masque of Gypsies 71* in tr. Horace Art of Poetry (1640) To Roger, or Mary, Or Meg of the Dary.
1727 J. Thomson Summer 26 Some [insects] to the House, The Fold, and Dairy, hungry, bend their Flight.
1838 W. Howitt Rural Life Eng. II. iii. i. 126 The elegant dairy for the supply of milk and cream, curds and butter.
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a. That department of farming, or of a particular farm, which is concerned with the production of milk, butter, and cheese. Hence, sometimes applied to the milch cows on a farm collectively.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun]
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dairying1652
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [noun] > that gives milk > collectively
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dairy herd1879
c1386 G. Chaucer Prol. 597 His lordes scheep, his meet, and his dayerie, His swyn, his hors, his stoor, and his pultrie, Was holly in this reeves governynge.
1680 W. Temple Ess. Advancem. Trade Ireland in Wks. (1773) III. 22 Grounds were turned much in England from breeding either to feeding or dairy.
1779 H. Swinburne Trav. Spain xxxviii. (R.) The large dairy of cows established here by the present king.
1814 J. West Alicia de Lacy III. 238 The..troopers..drove off our good cow-dairy.
1882 Somerset Co. Gaz. 18 Mar. Dairy of 12 or 16 cows to be let.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Dairy, the milking cows belonging to any farm or house.
b. Dairy produce. U.S.
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1883 Narragansett Hist. Reg. Jan. 226 Farmers used to sell their dairy in the Boston market.
3. A dairy-farm.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > dairy-farm
wick1086
vacherya1325
vaccary1471
dairy1562
dairy-farm1784
milk farm1794
saeter1799
vaccarage1895
1562 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Æneid ix. A a ij b Stormy showres and winds about mens deiries houling.
1594 J. Norden Speculi Brit. Pars: Essex (1840) (Camden) 8 In Tendring hundred wher are manie wickes or dayries.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Linc. 144 The Goodnesse of the Earth, abounding with Deries and Pasture.
1748 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 4) II. 42 All the lower Part of this County..is full of large feeding Farms, which we call Dairies; and the Cheese they make is excellent.
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C1. General attributive.
a.
dairy-cabin n.
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1797 A. Radcliffe Italian II. ii. 59 It was a dairy-cabin belonging to some shepherds.
dairy-country n.
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1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §354 Children in Dayrie Countries doe waxe more tall, than where they feed more upon Bread, and Flesh.
dairy cow n.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [noun] > that gives milk
milch cow1424
milk cow1450
dairy cow1656
milcher1707
milker1801
1656 R. Verney in M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family Commonwealth (1894) viii. 271, 4 Dairy Cowes..13 draught Bullocks.
c1830 Farm-Rep. Glouc. Hill-Farm 17 in Brit. Husbandry (1840) III The twenty heifer-calves are bred to keep up the stock of dairy-cows.
1963 A. Clarke Coll. Plays 291 A thousand Shorthorns and half as many dairy cows Are hers.
dairy-damsel n.
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1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 76 The yet more considerate dairy-damsel.
dairy-pail n.
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1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 5 The dairy pails Bring home increase of milk.
dairy-place n.
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1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 212/1 Dayrie place, meterie.
dairy produce n.
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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [noun]
whiteOE
white meata1425
milkmeat1440
milkness1493
whitage1537
whitsull1602
dairy-ware1727
lactage1753
dairy produce1842
milk product1867
creamerya1877
dairy1948
milchigs1949
1842 Ainsworth's Mag. 1 44 The sale of dairy produce at the market town.
1930 T. S. Eliot tr. ‘St.-J. Perse’ Anabasis 59 The Stranger..honoured with gifts of dairy produce and fruit.
dairy-society n.
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1890 Farmer's Gaz. 4 Jan. 5/2 The numerous dairy societies in America.
dairy-ware n.
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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [noun]
whiteOE
white meata1425
milkmeat1440
milkness1493
whitage1537
whitsull1602
dairy-ware1727
lactage1753
dairy produce1842
milk product1867
creamerya1877
dairy1948
milchigs1949
1727 P. Longueville Hermit 206 Having a pretty Store of Dary-Ware, he resolves to make a Place to keep it in; the Kitchen..not being a proper Place for Cream and milk.
dairy-wench n.
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1684 T. Otway Atheist v. 73 The Dairy-Wench, or Chamber-Maid.
dairy-wife n.
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1798 R. Bloomfield Spring in Farmer's Boy 251 Suffolk dairy-wives run mad for cream.
dairy-work n.
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1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. xii. 87 I have..admir'd them in their dairy-works.
1890 Farmer's Gaz. 4 Jan. 5/2 As a specialist in dairy work.
b.
dairy-fed adj.
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1831 Lincoln Herald 21 Oct. 1/1 For dairy-fed porkers the price is at 4s to 5s.
1842 S. Lover Handy Andy x I've seen them in England killing your dairy-fed pork.
1961 Guardian 28 Apr. 6/6 An organised..sales programme..for dairy fed meat and poultry.
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dairy butter n. butter made at a private dairy.
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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > butter > [noun]
butterOE
cow-butterc1000
spreader1610
spread1811
dairy butter1874
flab1923
1874 U.S. Dept. Agric. Rep. 1873 250 During 1873,..‘good dairy’ butter touched 40 cents as its highest extreme.
dairy cream n. real cream as distinct from synthetic cream.
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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [noun] > cream
reameOE
cream1332
raw creama1450
head1684
top of the milk1942
dairy cream1962
1962 L. Deighton Ipcress File ii. 19 The notice that told customers not to expect dairy cream in their pastries.
1970 Harrod's Summer Food News (back cover) Fresh dairy cream, fresh eggs, pure sugar, fresh milk, and natural flavourings are used to produce these wonderful ice creams.
dairy factory n. chiefly New Zealand a factory with plant for the conversion of milk into butter or cheese.
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1888 J. P. Dowling Dairying in Austral. iv. 19 Dairy Factories—Co-operative and otherwise.
1888 R. M. McCallum Rep. Dairy Factories in N.Z. 5 I have inspected a number of the dairy factories in the colony.
1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Jan. 21/3 There are two dairy factories in the area, a butter factory at Wairoa and a cheese factory at Nuhaka.
1959 A. H. McLintock Descr. Atlas N.Z. 57 Dairy factories are in the main owned cooperatively by the farmers.
dairy-farm n. a farm chiefly devoted to the production of milk, butter, and cheese.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > dairy-farm
wick1086
vacherya1325
vaccary1471
dairy1562
dairy-farm1784
milk farm1794
saeter1799
vaccarage1895
1784 J. Twamley Dairying Exemplified 93 There is no branch in Husbandry seems of more importance..than the conducting and managing of Dairy-farms.
1807 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Essex II. xii. 270 Dairy farms at Bumpstead and Hempstead, with much more grass than arable.
1895 Yearbk. U.S. Dept. Agric. 1894 295 The dairy farm should be carefully selected, all the requirements of the business being well considered.
dairy-farmer n.
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dairy-woman1609
cow-keeper1638
dairyman1784
dairy-farmer1790
cow-feeder1805
milk farmer1805
cow-banger1892
cow-cocky1914
cow-spanker1917
1790 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Midland Counties I. 354 A dairy farmer declares, that, one year, he lost forty pounds, by the mismanagement of his dairywoman.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian viii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 230 To employ them as a dairy farmer, or cow-feeder, as they are called in Scotland.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 10 Oct. People often ask why English dairy-farmers have not adopted the co-operative methods.
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dairy-farming n.
dairy-grounds n. cow-pastures.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture > cattle pasture
ox pasturea1300
fugationa1483
cow-pasture1523
ox-grass1568
cow-gang1583
cow-gate1597
dairy-groundsa1618
cattle-range1640
outlet1667
cow-down1724
tack1804
cattle-gate1808
cow's grass1824
cattle station1851
cattle-run1853
cow-lease1854
cattle ranch1857
cattle-post1865
home range1871
cow-run1887
a1618 J. Sylvester Hymn of Almes 131 His douns with Sheep, his daery-grounds wth Neat.
dairy herd n. a herd of milch-cows.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [noun] > that gives milk > collectively
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dairy herd1879
1879 J. P. Sheldon Dairy Farming i. 5/2 Whilst a cow is kept in the dairy herd.
1928 Daily Express 3 Feb. 5/2 Instruction is given in the management of small dairy herds.
dairy-school n. a technical school for teaching dairy-work or dairy-farming.
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1893 Queen 25 Mar. 278/2 They will..establish dairy schools all over England.
dairy shorthorn n. a shorthorn bred primarily to yield milk.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > breeds of ox > [noun] > shorthorn breeds
Durham1810
Teeswater1810
shorthorn1847
Shetland1849
Lincolnshire Red1897
Lincoln Red1903
milking shorthorn1910
Illawarra1911
dairy shorthorn1932
1932 Discovery Feb. 58/2 Indeed with the most important of English breeds—the dairy shorthorn—the quality of calves when they enter the dairy herd seems still largely a matter of chance.
1957 Encycl. Brit. V. 47/1 Strains of Shorthorns have been selected for milk and butterfat production, as well as beef, and in the United States are called Milking Shorthorns; in Canada, Dual-Purpose Shorthorns; in England and Australia, Dairy Shorthorns.
dairy-woman n. a woman who manages a dairy.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > dairy-farmer
dairy-woman1609
cow-keeper1638
dairyman1784
dairy-farmer1790
cow-feeder1805
milk farmer1805
cow-banger1892
cow-cocky1914
cow-spanker1917
1609 Euerie Woman in her Humor sig. G2v I shall goe to court now, and attired like an old Darie woman.
1841 M. L. Hawthorne in Hawthorne & Wife (1885) I. 230 Bring us home a box of butter, if your dairy-woman is very nice.
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Chiefly Scottish and New Zealand. A local shop, originally one specializing in milk and other dairy products, but now usually a convenience store selling confectionery, newspapers, groceries, etc. Sometimes more fully corner dairy.Cf. corner shop n. at corner n.1 Compounds 2, milk bar n. at milk n.1 and adj. Compounds 3a.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > small shop > local
convenience store1902
duka1912
dairy1914
sari-sari store1925
café1957
corner shop1963
neighbourhood friendly1970
depanneur1975
kirana1979
1914 J. M. Hay Gillespie 525 He..walked along on the look-out for an eating-house. In Kelvinhaugh he entered a dairy, drank two glasses of milk and ate a scone.
1945 N.Z. Parl. Deb. 272 268/1 In Auckland a large number of shops close on Saturday... The result is that all these little dairies have arisen... It is not milk they are selling, but groceries.
1984 J. Kelman Busconductor Hines (1992) i. 33 This conductor I was on with the other day, first terminus and off he jumps straight into a wee dairy—two jamrolls and two pints of milk.
2018 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) (Nexis) 20 Dec. (Advertising Suppl.) 39 The modern service station is the corner dairy of the 21st century, a crosspoint where all members of the community can come to get everything from hot coffees and pies to the latest news.
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Originally U.S. Foodstuffs containing or derived from milk, considered collectively.
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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [noun]
whiteOE
white meata1425
milkmeat1440
milkness1493
whitage1537
whitsull1602
dairy-ware1727
lactage1753
dairy produce1842
milk product1867
creamerya1877
dairy1948
milchigs1949
1948 Zanesville (Ohio) Signal 18 Dec. 1/1 Views on the food outlook for next year were expressed by officials in all lines of food including meat, dairy, poultry, fruit and groceries.
1952 M. Zborowski & E. Herzog Life is with People (1955) 253 The food wasn't too good and we could only eat dairy there.
1994 Spotlight (Slave Lake, Alberta) 6 July a4/1 (advt.) It's like ice cream but contains no dairy.
2003 Scotsman (Nexis) 10 May 27 For the dedicated veggie who also eschews the evils of eggs and dairy, however, a vegan restaurant is a rare godsend.
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dairy-free adj. that does not contain milk or products derived from milk.
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1983 Washington Post 24 July k4/2 It's a dairy-free product (for kosher kitchens or for those with lactose intolerance).
1988 Health Express Mar. 5/3 Much of the carob available is dairy-free, an added bonus for those who are keen to avoid dairy products.
1997 Daily Tel. 9 May 20/2 A dairy-free diet had no effect, but removing the carpet in his bedroom and replacing it with lino coincided with a marked improvement in both the asthma and eczema.
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dairyv.
rare.
transitive. To keep or feed (cows) for the dairy.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > dairy farm [verb (transitive)]
dairy1780
1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (Dublin ed.) II. 142 The cattle system is generally dairying Cows.
1805 J. Luccock Nature & Prop. Wool 245 Those [lands] of a stiffer quality are employed in the dairying of cows.
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