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Definition of Piggeries
1. piggery [n] - See also: piggery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Piggeries
Literary usage of Piggeries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Treatise on the Law Governing Nuisances: With Particular Reference to Its by Joseph Asbury Joyce, Howard Clifford Joyce (1906)
"... yards and piggeries, 208. stock yards and cattle cars, 209. construction or
maintenance of stables or cattle enclosures as affected by- ordinance, ..."
2. Handbook of Geographical and Historical Pathology by August Hirsch (1885)
"... AND piggeries IN THE TROPICS. Generally speaking, Pulex penetrans occurs more
frequently on low plains, especially the sea coast or the banks of rivers, ..."
3. Our Homes, and how to Make Them Healthy by Shirley Forster Murphy, Robert Brudenell Carter (1883)
"As with the stables, so with the piggeries—for it is not unusual to find these
... a liquid-manure collection for garden use from the stables and piggeries, ..."
4. The Farmstead: The Making of the Rural Home and the Lay-out of the Farm by Isaac Phillips Roberts (1900)
"piggeries A piggery of any considerable size is the most difficult to plan of
all farm structures. One of two methods may be adopted in the East with fairly ..."
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