piggery
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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
Meanwhile, piggery managers combated mosquitoes by mowing grass, applying insecticides, removing standing water, and repairing window screens in offices and lunch rooms.
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
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Black dots represent open piggeries as of this year.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 21, 2023
Eventually more than 80 Australian piggeries would be declared infected.
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
Rovio will also add social features to the original Angry Birds that will allow people to find their Facebook friends and smash some piggeries with them.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2011
Unless the traveller had brought historic facts with him to Gradischtie, he would hardly be induced to search for tesselated pavements and relics of royalty amongst the piggeries of this dirty Wallack village.
From Round About the Carpathians by Crosse, Andrew F.