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noun

Creamery n. (pl. creameries)

A place where butter and cheese are made, or where milk and cream are put up in cans for market.

A place or apparatus in which milk is set for raising cream.

An establishment where cream is sold.

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Etymology of 'Creamery'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Creamery" Quotes from Famous Books

... in all the world so quick to see what is really for his advantage as the Irish farmer, and so the movement gradually found favour, and co-operative associations began to be formed in all parts of Ireland. The agricultural labourer has all along regarded the Creamery side of co-operation with absolute dislike. He declares that it is fast denuding the land of labour, that it tends to decrease tillage, and is one of the most active causes of emigration. They say, and there is ocular evidence of the fact, that a donkey and a little boy or girl to drive ...

— Ireland Since Parnell • Daniel Desmond Sheehan

... will ever stop the present frightful waste of infant lives, counted in thousands annually, unless dairies are frequently inspected and forced to be clean; unless milk is kept at a temperature of about fifty degrees on the train, in the creamery, at the receiving station, and in the milk shop; unless dealers scald and thoroughly cleanse cans in which milk is shipped; unless licenses are taken from farmers, creameries, and retailers who violate ...

— Civics and Health • William H. Allen

Words linked to "Creamery" : work