[f. SWINE sb. + -ERY; cf. piggery.]

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  1.  A place where swine are kept; a piggery. Also fig.

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1778.  [W. Marshall], Minutes Agric., Digest, 22. The Swinery … is very commodious.

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1792.  Wolcot (P. Pindar), More Money, Ode ii. 12. Thus are parterres of Richmond and of Kew Dug up for bull and cow, and ram and ewe, And Windsor Park so glorious, made a swinery.

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1895.  Meredith, Amazing Marr., I. viii. 89. There is to be an extra bedroom secured at her hotel. That swinery of a place she insists on visiting is usually crammed.

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1895.  Arena (Boston), Aug., 434. His neighbor keeps a swinery in his garden.

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  2.  A swinish condition; swine collectively.

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1849.  Carlyle, Irish Journey, 28 July (1882), 201. Hunan swinery has here reached its acme, happily.

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1888.  Lees & Clutterbuck, B.C. 1887, xxxiv. (1892), 376. A squealing, grunting, parti-coloured streak of swinery went scuttering past.

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