lactory
/ˈlæktəɹi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "lactory or milky plants"
- "LACTORY OR MILKING PARLOUR? “To be, or not to be - that is the question" Lactory savours of Milk Factory, which indeed it is - the place where lactation occurs, or where the fruits of lactation are gathered. It is a nice short word ..."
- "When milking-time comes round the cows walk out of the court into the lactory or milking parlour, where they enter the stalls to be groomed. Leaving these stalls they go to the milking stalls, where they are thoroughly washed and the milk is taken from them by a milking machine that also weighs the milk […]"
- "This concentration of lactory and dairy will in many cases eliminate long distances to be travelled between cowshed and dairy, and ensure conditions as hygienic in the lactory as they are in the dairy. […] These conditions are that the milking shed and dairy should be housed under the same roof, as in a lactory, or near to one another."
Usage
Inflected Forms
lactories (plural)