purgeryn.
/ˈpəːdʒ(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈpərdʒ(ə)ri/ Now chiefly historical.
In sugar manufacture: a room or building where the molasses is removed from the sugar.
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ingenio1600
sugar-house1600
sugar-works1604
sugar-garden1613
sugary1696
sugar-bakery1794
sugar-bakehouse1816
purgery1844
usine1858
1844 A. Durnford Let. 9 Sept. in D. O. Whitten Andrew Durnford (1995) 46 I..presume it has lost less than the sugar here as my purgery is low and warm.
1905 Publ. Amer. Econ. Assoc. 5 93 In every open-kettle sugar house is a room called the ‘purgery’.
2005 I. B. Harkey Black Sugar xxi. 102 The juice..went into coolers in the cooler room, and from the coolers to the purgery where the molasses was drained from the sugar.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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