英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ˈlæktəɹi/
• Homophone: lactary

形容詞

lactory (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Lactiferous.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     lactory or milky plants

名詞

lactory (plural lactories)

1. (uncommon, possibly dated) A place where milking (especially of cows) occurs.
   • 1944, advertisement, printed in The Home Farmer, volumes 11-12, page 15:

     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 ...

   • 1946, The Scottish Co-operator: A Journal of Progress and Economy, page 267:

     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 […]

   • 1947, The Dairyman, volumes 64-65, pages 293-294:

     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.

アナグラム

• Claytor, actorly, cotylar