quaileryn.
/ˈkweɪl(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈkweɪləri/ Now rare.
A place where quails are kept, esp. to be fattened for food.
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duckery1745
quail pit1773
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tealery1890
teal-house1902
1843 F. Bellew Mem. Griffin II. 91 Much of his time is occupied in..looking after his tealery, and quailery, and sheep.
1876 J. H. Baldwin Large & Small Game Bengal (1877) 293 The natives net quail in vast numbers and bring them round for sale to the residents of our stations to fill up their quaileries.
1894 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 387/2 The native caught the birds alive for the quaileries of Anglo-Indians.
2003 H. D. Raney Snowmelt Timberdoodles 9 There are places here in the snow crust that look like quail highways, quail bypasses, Grand Central Quaileries.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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