gullery

English

Etymology

gull +‎ -ery

Noun

gullery (countable and uncountable, plural gulleries)

1. (archaic) An act, or the practice, of gulling; trickery; fraud.
2. A colony of gulls.
   • 1901, Edmund Selous, Bird Watching, page 128:

     Gulls seem to fear the great skua less than the Arctic one, and will sometimes mob and molest it. A single pair that had nested on the outskirts of a gullery were a good deal subject to this annoyance.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “gullery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• gruelly