Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Cheating or a cheat; fraud.
  • noun A place where gulls breed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare An act, or the practice, of gulling; trickery; fraud.

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  • noun archaic An act, or the practice, of gulling; trickery; fraud.
  • noun A colony of gulls.

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Examples

  • That is, answered Epistemon, a gullery too evident, a plain abuse and fib too fabulous.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • That is, answered Epistemon, a gullery too evident, a plain abuse and fib too fabulous.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • But they had clear favorable weather, and they won through each pinch, by one or another fraud which Niafer evolved the instant that gullery was needed.

    Figures of Earth James Branch Cabell 1918

  • And this other is a gullery of the same stamp, to call the offices of our kingdom by the lofty titles of the Romans, though they have no similitude of function, and still less of authority and power.

    The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 08 Michel de Montaigne 1562

  • And this other is a gullery of the same stamp, to call the offices of our kingdom by the lofty titles of the Romans, though they have no similitude of function, and still less of authority and power.

    The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562

  • That is, answered Epistemon, a gullery too evident, a plain abuse and fib too fabulous.

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

  • Neverthe-less Madam’s Toshowus waxes largely more lifeliked (entrance, one kudos; exits, free) and our notional gullery is now com-pletely complacent, an exegious monument, aerily perennious.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • "Are you a fool, friend?" said the Countess sharply; "or do you think, because I have good-naturedly purchased your trumpery goods at your roguish prices, that you may put any gullery you will on me?

    Kenilworth Walter Scott 1801

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  • A fraudulent act, or a place where gulls breed. Flip a coin.

    December 8, 2011