Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A place for keeping a stud of horses.

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

  • noun obsolete A stud, or collection of breeding horses and mares; also, a place for keeping a stud.

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

  • noun obsolete A stud, or collection of breeding horses and mares.
  • noun obsolete A place for keeping a stud of this kind.

Etymologies

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stud +‎ -ery

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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.

    Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

  • 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 1909

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