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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An establishment for distilling, especially for distilling alcoholic liquors.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act or art of distilling.
  • noun The building and works where distilling is carried on.

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

  • noun The building and works where distilling, esp. of alcoholic liquors, is carried on.
  • noun rare The act of distilling spirits.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A place where distillation takes place, especially the distillation of alcoholic spirits.
  • noun A company that distills alcohol.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a plant and works where alcoholic drinks are made by distillation

Etymologies

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distill +‎ -ery (“place of”).

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