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Definition of Knackery
1. the place of business of a knacker [n -ERIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Knackery
Literary usage of Knackery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report in Respect of the Inquiry as to Effluvium Nuisances Arising in by Edward Ballard (1882)
"On four occasions I have met with the manufacture of an artificial manure in
association with a knackery. One of these was Kent's, near one of the railways ..."
2. A Manual of Practical Hygiene by Edmund Alexander Parkes (1887)
"Parent-Duchatelet, from his examination of the health of the men employed at the
knackery and slaughter-house at Montfaucon, came also to the conclusion ..."
3. The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany (1818)
"... than this essayist's salubrious but unproductive specimen of running up and
down a hill. for a moment of comparing the knick- knackery exercises of ..."
4. Parisian Sights and French Principles, Seen Through American Spectacles by James Jackson Jarves (1855)
"... and mechanics of knick-knackery, every other knick-knackery and fashion, not
absolutely Parisian in its origin and education, is rapidly giving way. ..."
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