单词 | heronry |
释义 | heronry, hernery|ˈhɛrənrɪ, ˈhɜːnərɪ| [f. heron, hern + -ry.] A place where herons breed. α1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 671 To prouide therefore for a Heronrie or place to breed herons in. 1622–3in Simpkinson Washingtons (1860) App. 41 Cutting the greate tree in the heronrow. 1789G. White Selborne xxiii. (1853) 94 Send me word..whether the heronry consists of a whole grove or wood, or only a few trees. 1872Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lakes (1879) 25 It contains two or three wooded islets, upon one of which was a heronry. β1603–4Act 1 Jas. I, c. 27 §6 So that hee or they shall not shoote in anye..Gunne, within sixe hundreth paces of any Hernerie. 1786W. Gilpin Lakes Cumbld. (1808) II. xix. 76 The screams of a hernery (the wildest notes in nature). |

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