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(obsolete, dialectal, chiefly Western Pennsylvania) A facility in which animal carcasses are rendered into useful by-products, such as hides, fertilizer, soap, etc.; a rendering plant..
It is the rendering establishment of Dr. E. L. Czarnieki, the City Fallmaster. It is better known to the daily newspaper reader as the schindery, a German term which like that of Dr. Czarnieki's office—Fallmaster—is unknown to Webster's unabridged. It is at the schindery where the carcasses picked up from the street are utilized for nearly one hundred and one purposes.
Previous to the outbreak at West Elizabeth the Board had, at the urgent request of Crosby Gray, Esq., the efficient and energetic health officer of Pittsburgh, made an investigation into the condition of certain bone-boiling establishments, known in the dialect of that region as "schinderies," which it was feared might pollute the Monongahela river, from which what is called South Pittsburgh draws its water supply.
Use schindery when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Schindery means (obsolete, dialectal, chiefly Western Pennsylvania) A facility in which animal carcasses are rendered into useful by-products, such as hides, fertilizer, soap, etc.; a rendering plant..
Common synonyms include knacker's yard, knackery.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
It is the rendering establishment of Dr. E. L. Czarnieki, the City Fallmaster. It is better known to the daily newspaper reader as the schindery, a German term which like that of Dr. Czarnieki's office—Fallmaster—is unknown to Webster's unabridged. It is at the schindery where the carcasses picked up from the street are utilized for nearly one hundred and one purposes.
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