gullery

English

Etymology

From gull +‎ -ery.

Noun

gullery (countable and uncountable, plural gulleries)

  1. (archaic) An act, or the practice, of gulling i.e. trickery, cheating or fraud.[1]
  2. A colony of gulls.
    • 1901, Edmund Selous, Bird Watching, page 128:
      Gulls seem to fear the great skua less than the Arctic one, and will sometimes mob and molest it. A single pair that had nested on the outskirts of a gullery were a good deal subject to this annoyance.

References

  1. ^ “gullery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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