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Definition of Gullery
1. n. An act, or the practice, of gulling; trickery; fraud.
Definition of Gullery
1. Noun. (archaic) An act, or the practice, of gulling; trickery; fraud. ¹
2. Noun. A colony of gulls. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gullery
1. a deception [n GULLERIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gullery
Literary usage of Gullery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mountain, Meadow, & Mere: A Series of Outdoor Sketches of Sport, Scenery by George Christopher Davies (1874)
"... SCOULTON gullery A SOMEWHAT similar instinct to that which compels the salmon
to leave the salt water of the sea, and ascend the rivers and streams, ..."
2. The Gull's Hornbook: Stultorum Plena Sunt Omnia by Thomas Dekker (1812)
"... to the musiek of our instructions : nor let the title gullery fright you from
school, for mark what an excellent ladder you are to climb by. ..."
3. Transactions by Thomas Southwell, Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society (1870)
"SCOULTON gullery. BY H. STEVENSON, FLS Read 29th September, 1871. SCOULTON Mere,
at the present time, as in years gone by, the chief nesting place of the ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1902)
"Going on through this gullery, we found that near certain nests, ... By and by
we passed out of this gullery, but farther along we could see others, ..."
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