pinery
(ˈpaɪnərɪ)
[f. pine n.2 + -ery.]
1. A place in which pine-apples are grown.
| 1758 J. Ralph Authors by Profession 41 All must have their Fooleries as well as their Pinaries. 1787 Olla Podrida No. 42 (1788) 425 The Pleasure of seeing Green-houses and Pineries arise. 1858 Glenny Gard. Every-day Bk. 207/1 Separate vineries, forcing-houses, pineries, and hot-pits. |
2. A plantation or grove of pine-trees. Also attrib. Chiefly N. Amer.
| 1783 Rep. Bureau Arch. Ontario (1906) III. p. cxx, There are fine pineries two or three miles from the water's edge where large masts may be procured. 1822 Massachusetts Spy 6 Feb. (Th.), There are also a few pineries, but of small extent. 1831 J. Porter Sir E. Seaward's Narr. II. 160 Our pines in the dell formed an infant pinery. 1882 Harper's Mag. Dec. 12/1 When the timber shall have been stripped from the pineries of Maine. 1926 Amer. Speech II. 100/2 The lumberjacks have found anthologists who appreciate better than did the singers themselves the charm of the pinery songs. 1952 D. F. Putnam Canad. Regions 138/1 Its ‘pineries’ formed the source of much of the timber which came down the Ottawa River. |