studdery

English

Etymology

From stud +‎ -ery.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstʌdəɹi/

Noun

studdery (plural studderies)

1. (obsolete) A stud, or collection of breeding horses and mares.
2. (obsolete) A place for keeping a stud of this kind.
   • 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “The Historie of Englande”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:

     King Henry the Eighth erected a noble studdery.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “studdery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)