Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place or an apparatus for boiling.
- noun A salt-house or place for evaporating brine.
- noun In law, water arising from a salt-well belonging to one who is not the owner of the soil.
- noun Also
boilary .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A place and
apparatus forboiling , as forevaporating brine in themanufacture ofsalt .
Etymologies
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Compare French bouillerie.
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Examples
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Let a man succeed in art, and he will be paid one or two thousand pounds apiece for his most "pot-boilery" portraits.
Mr. Meeson's Will Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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The wind, the night before, had blown down twenty apple trees into the farmyard, overturned the boilery, and carried away the roof of the barn.
Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Gustave Flaubert 1850
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All the appointments, from the carthouse to the boilery, stood in need of repair.
Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Gustave Flaubert 1850
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