Boilery

Quick meaning: Boilery is a noun meaning A room or area where there is equipment for boiling that is part of a larger establishment, such as equipment for rendering blubber on board a whaling vessel, or vats for boiling laundry as part of a large farmhouse.

Meaning

A room or area where there is equipment for boiling that is part of a larger establishment, such as equipment for rendering blubber on board a whaling vessel, or vats for boiling laundry as part of a large farmhouse.

More Meanings

1. A buisness (and place of business) that engages primarily in boiling, such as in the boiling of sugarcane juice to make sugar, the boiling of brine to make salt, the boiling of soap or tallow, the boiling of bones to make glue, etc.

Example Sentences

Holonyms: saltworks; sugarhouse

All the appointments, from the carthouse to the boilery, stood in need of repair.

The Factory is placed in the 'tween deck, i.e., aft the blubber boilery, and forward of it the press boilery and Hartmann apparatus.

The time has gone by when a boilery for urine was regarded as indispensable for a physician's scientific progress, and I dare say we are all grateful for this deliverance.

Word Forms

• boileries

Synonyms for boilery

Depending on context, synonyms include boiling-house.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include boiling-house, boilermaking, boil, parboiler, boildown, boiloff.

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