vaccary

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  1. A cow-house, dairy, or cow-pasture. See vachery. [Provincial English] At this time there were eleven vaccaries (places of pasture for cows) in Fondle Forest, and the herbage and agistments of each vaccary were valued to the lord at 10s., or in all 110s. yearly. Baines, Hist. Lancashire, II. 25.

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  • At a later period, namely in 1311, after the death of another Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, the last of his line, and one of the bravest of Edward the First's barons, an inquisition was held in the forest, and it was subdivided into eleven vaccaries, one of which is the place to which you are bound, Rough Lee The learned Sir Edward Coke defines a vaccary to signify a dairy," observed Potts Here it means the farm and land as well," replied the reeve; "and the word 'booth,' which is in general use in this district, signifies the mansion erected upon such vaccary: Mistress Nutter's residence, for instance, being nothing more than the booth of Rough Lee: while a 'lawnd,' another local term, is a park inclosed within the forest for the preservation of the deer, and the convenience of the chase, and of such inclosures we have two, namely, the Old and New Lawnd. —  The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest
  • In the near distance north-east are the buildings which occupy the site of the vaccary of Bardney Abbey, still called Bardney Dairies, and said to have been the original position of the abbey itself, before its destruction by the Danes. —  Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter
 

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  1. from Middle Latin vaccaria, from Latin vacca, a cow: see vaccine. Cf. vachery, a doublet of vaccary.
 

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