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piggery

[pig-uh-ree] / ˈpɪg ə ri /
NOUN
pigpen
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Dormant since 1985, the distillery recently announced it would reopen, and build the region’s first “whisky resort,” complete with a spa, a five-star hotel and a bistro housed in a former piggery.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 16, 2026

Guo says she came to local politics from the pig-farming business, having managed her family's commercial piggery for several years.

From BBC Mar. 24, 2025

“Where you have got a piggery, it’s quite possible that you would have one of these birds feeding on a nearby wetland and mosquitoes moving between them.”

From Science Magazine Nov. 21, 2023

Asilo and his family have survived for decades off the proceeds from his vegetable farm, piggery, coconut grove and on-and-off work as caretaker of a nearby gravel and sand quarry.

From Seattle Times Jun. 19, 2023

There were stables, cowsheds, a piggery, a chicken house, and two large barns with haylofts.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys

Webb and colleagues later analyzed the landscape around dozens of domestic piggeries and found a strong association between transient wetland expansion and piggery infection—a link at least partly explained by the proliferation of mosquitoes.

From Science Magazine Nov. 21, 2023

Black dots represent open piggeries as of this year.

From Science Magazine Nov. 21, 2023

The houses on Portland Road were built in the 1850s on waste land between the downmarket Norland estate, home to the squalid piggeries and potteries, and the fancy new Ladbroke Estate, which became Notting Hill.

From BBC Jun. 26, 2012

Marin Hinkle gives a winsome performance as the sad-eyed heroine, Meena Pierotti, the managing editor for piggeries at American Cattle and Swine magazine.

From New York Times Feb. 8, 2012

Three stone buildings, two brick buildings, eighty-five or ninety frame houses, one rope-walk and about two hundred shanties, barns, stables, piggeries, and bone-factories, appear in a census made just before Central Park was begun.

From Fifth Avenue by Arthur Bartlett Maurice




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