01 n. The place, room, or house where milk is kept, and converted into butter or cheese.
pl.
Dairies ((-rĭz))
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1.
The place, room, or house where milk is kept, and converted into butter or cheese.“What stores my dairies and my folds contain.” — Dryden.
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2.
That department of farming which is concerned in the production of milk, and its conversion into butter and cheese.“Grounds were turned much in England either to feeding or dairy; and this advanced the trade of English butter.” — Temple.
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3.
A dairy farm.[R.]