Obs. A corruption of AVENERY.

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c. 1480.  Liber Niger Edw. IV., in Househ. Ord. (1790), 69. Other provender in the averey.

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1667.  E. Chamberlayne, St. Gt. Brit., I. II. xii. (1743), 100. The accompts of the … avener, being chief clerk of the avery.

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1783.  Ainsworth, Lat. Dict. (Morell), The king’s Avery.

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