Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A place for keeping a stud of horses.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete A stud, or collection of breeding horses and mares.
- n. obsolete A place for keeping a stud of this kind.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A stud, or collection of breeding horses and mares; also, a place for keeping a stud.
Etymologies
- stud + -ery (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Sir Nicholas Arnold of late hath bred the best horses in England, and written of the manner of their production: would to God his compass of ground were like to that of Pella in Syria, wherein the king of that nation had usually a studdery of 30,000 mares and 300 stallions, as Strabo doth remember, lib.”
Of Cattle Kept for Profit. Chapter XII. [1577, Book III., Chapter 8; 1587, Book III., Chapter 1
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