Meaning of tealery | Babel Free

Definitions

An enclosure for housing teal before they are killed and eaten.

Examples

“Here are the fowl-house and the sheep-house, and the goat-house, and the cow-house, and the tealery, and the quailery, and the columbarie, and the extensive godowns, and all the other adjuncts of a large Anglo-Indian establishment of the olden time.”

“In Behar every prudent English resident keeps a quailery, as well as a tealery, on his premises, and a dish of fat quail is a very agreeable and wholesome change⟳ of diet when the weather is hot.”

“We have⟳ already mentioned that wild Common Teal were caught and kept in Indian tealeries before being killed and eaten, and archaeological remains suggest⟳ that ancient Egyptians may have⟳ bred Common Teal in captivity (though this speculation is based on indirect evidence).”

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