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gullery en · NOUN

Etymology

From gull + -ery.

Meanings

1. (archaic, countable, uncountable) An act, or the practice, of gulling i.e. trickery, cheating or fraud.
2. (countable, uncountable) A colony of gulls.
   • 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. 1901, Edmund Selous, Bird Watching, page 128:

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