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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

On 25 February, the government officially diagnosed the Grong Grong piggery with JEV.

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

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

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

The cow-house is connected with a court-yard, which contains a shed for hay and straw, piggeries, with a manure-well connected with the water-closet.

From Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. XLII., May 1851 by Various




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