单词 | pinery |
释义 | pineryn. 1. A place in which pineapples are grown. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > greenhouse or glass-house > other types of glass-house or hothouse orangeryc1660 winter garden1736 pinery1756 succession house1786 mushroom house1797 striking-house1824 palm house1826 show house1831 cold house1841 pine-house1843 orchard house1858 coolhouse1869 1756 Connoisseur No. 137. 827 His lordship has lately been at an immense charge in raising a Pinery, in order to try the experiment of making Cyder of Pine-apples. 1787 Olla Podrida (1788) No. 42. 425 The Pleasure of seeing Green-houses and Pineries arise. 1858 G. Glenny Gardener's Every-day Bk. (new ed.) 207/1 Separate vineries, forcing-houses, pineries, and hot-pits. 1887 Times 9 June 15/3 The gardens are exceptionally fine, with splendid vineries, peach-houses, pinery, &c. 1987 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 10 Oct. 5 d Collins has built a miniature pinery of his own. It has..rows of healthy looking pineapple plants. 2. Chiefly North American. A plantation or grove of pine trees. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > pines and allies > assemblage of pinewood1652 piney wood1666 pinery1783 pinetum1828 1783 Rep. 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. 1831 W. O. Porter & J. Porter Sir Edward Seaward's Narr. II. 160 Our pines in the dell formed an infant pinery. 1882 Harper's Mag. Dec. 12/1 When the timber shall have been stripped from the pineries of Maine. 1952 D. F. Putnam Canad. Regions 138/1 Its ‘pineries’ formed the source of much of the timber which came down the Ottawa River. 1989 C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 338/1 Between 1890 and 1920 the timber industry left the cutover pineries of the Great Lake states for the..virgin pineries of the South. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1756 |
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