Dictionary

quailery en · NOUN

Etymology

From quail + -ery.

Meanings

1. A structure in which one houses quail that are kept as a food animal.
   • 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. 1891, Robert Edward Forrest, Eight Days, page 33:
   • 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. 1891 March, C.T. Buckland, “Some Birds in India”, in Longman's Magazine, volume 17:
   • A quailery should be dark (or the mailes will be always fighting), light being let in at early morning, at noon, and towards sunset, and the birds fed each time. 1880, Allan Octavian Hume, The Game Birds of India, Burmah, and Ceylon, page 142:
   • The quail is notorious for its quarrelsomeness : being confined in cage or quailery, it has to be kept in the dark if it is to be kept alive. 1895, Sir Edward Braddon, Thirty Years of Shikar, page 64:

Forms