boilery
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English
Etymology
Compare French bouillerie.
Noun
boilery (plural boileries)
- A buisness (and place of business) that engages primarily in boiling, such as in the boiling of sugarcane juice to make sugar, the boiling of brine to make salt, the boiling of soap or tallow, the boiling of bones to make glue, etc.
- Synonym: boiling-house
- Holonyms: saltworks; sugarhouse
- 1886, Arthur George Sedgwick, Frederick Scott Wait, A Treatise on the Trial of Title to Land, page 67:
- By the grant of a boilery of salt it is said that the soil passes, for it is the whole profit of the soil, and the water being fixed in a certain place within the bounds and compass of the well is considered a part of the soil.
- 1889, Seymour Dwight Thompson, A Treatise on the Law of Trials in Actions Civil and Criminal, page 1396:
- In an old case of an informationm for erecting and continuing a soap boilery in Wood Street, in London, to the annoyance of the neighborhood, the trial was before Jeffreys, C.J., at Guildhall—a judge whose name is more unsavory to posterity than any soap boilery.
- 2017, Thorkild Hansen, Islands of Slaves, page 257:
- Hibiscus, agaves and clematis have been planted round about in small artistic arrangements, the flamboyant flowers like blood that never dries, and inside the boilery there are two iron cauldrons still cemented in their original places and merely converted into small water basins with water lilies, goldfish and submerged electric lighting.
- 2024, Brian C. Black, Michael J. Chiarappa, Nature's Entrepot, page 83:
- Lampblack factories, for example, further processed bones from the boilery into a substance used in writing and printing inks (also in shoe blacking), products critical to a nation newly awash in newspapers, novels, and penny press features. Curled hair was another material supplied by boileries (as well as by piggeries and slughter-houses.)
- A room or area where there is equipment for boiling that is part of a larger establishment, such as equipment for rendering blubber on board a whaling vessel, or vats for boiling laundry as part of a large farmhouse.
- 1875, Theodore Juergensen, “Croupous Pneumonia, Catarrhal Pneumonia, Hypostatic Processes in the Lungs, and Embolic Pneumonia”, in Cyclopædia of the Practice of Medicine - Volume 5, page 98:
- The time has gone by when a boilery for urine was regarded as indispensable for a physician's scientific progress, and I dare say we are all grateful for this deliverance.
- 1931, Transactions - North East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, volume 47, page 142:
- The Factory is placed in the 'tween deck, i.e., aft the blubber boilery, and forward of it the press boilery and Hartmann apparatus.
- 2024, Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard and Pécuchet:
- All the appointments, from the carthouse to the boilery, stood in need of repair.