boilery
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Holonyms: saltworks; sugarhouse"
- "By the grant of a boilery of salt it is said that the soil passes, for it is the whole profit of the soil, and the water being fixed in a certain place within the bounds and compass of the well is considered a part of the soil."
- "In an old case of an informationm for erecting and continuing a soap boilery in Wood Street, in London, to the annoyance of the neighborhood, the trial was before Jeffreys, C.J., at Guildhall—a judge whose name is more unsavory to posterity than any soap boilery."
- "Hibiscus, agaves and clematis have been planted round about in small artistic arrangements, the flamboyant flowers like blood that never dries, and inside the boilery there are two iron cauldrons still cemented in their original places and merely converted into small water basins with water lilies, goldfish and submerged electric lighting."
- "Lampblack factories, for example, further processed bones from the boilery into a substance used in writing and printing inks (also in shoe blacking), products critical to a nation newly awash in newspapers, novels, and penny press features. Curled hair was another material supplied by boileries (as well as by piggeries and slughter-houses.)"
- "The time has gone by when a boilery for urine was regarded as indispensable for a physician's scientific progress, and I dare say we are all grateful for this deliverance."
Etymology
Compare French bouillerie.