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
On 25 February, the government officially diagnosed the Grong Grong piggery with JEV.
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
Eventually more than 80 Australian piggeries would be declared infected.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 21, 2023
Black dots represent open piggeries as of this year.
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
Marin Hinkle gives a winsome performance as the sad-eyed heroine, Meena Pierotti, the managing editor for piggeries at American Cattle and Swine magazine.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2012
It has been a custom on many farms to apply the liquid manure got from the oozings of manure-heaps, the drainings of the farmyard, byres, stables, piggeries, &c., directly to the soil.
From Manures and the principles of manuring by Charles Morton Aikman
