piggery
noun
a pigsty or pig breeder's establishment.
piggeries
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pluralof piggery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Webb and colleagues later analyzed the landscape around dozens of domestic piggeries and found a strong association between transient wetland expansion and piggery infection—a link at least partly explained by the proliferation of mosquitoes.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 21, 2023
Staffs at piggeries got priority: All but two of 26 employees at the Grong Grong farm rolled up their sleeves 11 days after the farm was diagnosed.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 21, 2023
The houses on Portland Road were built in the 1850s on waste land between the downmarket Norland estate, home to the squalid piggeries and potteries, and the fancy new Ladbroke Estate, which became Notting Hill.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2012
Marin Hinkle gives a winsome performance as the sad-eyed heroine, Meena Pierotti, the managing editor for piggeries at American Cattle and Swine magazine.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2012
Yet had the piggery been tiled, the time-honoured hostel would even now at this last moment have been safe; but it was constructed as piggeries are mostly constructed, of wood and thatch.
From Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy
