† aˈcatery Obs.
Also acatry, accatre, accatry, achatry.
[f. acater + -y.]
Provisions purchased; also, ‘the room or place allotted to the keeping of all such provisions as the purveyors purchased for the King.’ Halliwell.
| a 1377 Househ. Ord. of Edw. III (1790) 4 Buttery, Achatry, Chandery, etc. 1522 Visit of Charles V to Eng. in Rutl. Pap. (1842) 78 Item, placardes to be hadd for the purveors of the pultre, accatre, and other. 1526 Househ. Ord. of Hen. VIII, 142 The serjeant of the acatry..shall see that..as well flesh as fish, be good & of the best. 1551 MS. in Macm. Mag. XLV. 447 The Acatrye, or purchases made of flesh meat, 579l., includes veals, lamb, muttons, hogs of bacon. 1751 Chambers Cycl. s.v., The officers of the Acatery, are a serjeant, two joint-clerks, and a yeoman of the salt-stores. |