piggery
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Dormant since 1985, the distillery recently announced it would reopen, and build the region’s first “whisky resort,” complete with a spa, a five-star hotel and a bistro housed in a former piggery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
Guo says she came to local politics from the pig-farming business, having managed her family's commercial piggery for several years.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2025
Webb and colleagues later analyzed the landscape around dozens of domestic piggeries and found a strong association between transient wetland expansion and piggery infection—a link at least partly explained by the proliferation of mosquitoes.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 21, 2023
Asilo and his family have survived for decades off the proceeds from his vegetable farm, piggery, coconut grove and on-and-off work as caretaker of a nearby gravel and sand quarry.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 19, 2023
There were stables, cowsheds, a piggery, a chicken house, and two large barns with haylofts.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
Black dots represent open piggeries as of this year.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 21, 2023
Commercial piggeries, Thorburn knew, dotted the region the hospital serves.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 21, 2023
The houses on Portland Road were built in the 1850s on waste land between the downmarket Norland estate, home to the squalid piggeries and potteries, and the fancy new Ladbroke Estate, which became Notting Hill.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2012
Rovio will also add social features to the original Angry Birds that will allow people to find their Facebook friends and smash some piggeries with them.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2011
One had twenty piggeries, of three hundred pigs each, in its forests.
From Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag by Louisa May Alcott
