eggeryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

eggery (plural eggeries)

1. A place where eggs are deposited, produced, sold or kept.
   • 1892 May 26, The W.A. Record, Perth, page 4, column 4:

     A buffle headed sub-chanter having been found guilty of absconsion from his butlership scuddled hastily with colubrine steps into the seclusion of his battish eggery.

2. A nest of eggs.

参照

• “eggery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.