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Definition of Pickeries
1. pickery [n] - See also: pickery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pickeries
Literary usage of Pickeries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fifty Years a Detective by Thomas Furlong (1912)
"There are a large number of cotton pickeries in that city. ... In other words,
these cotton pickeries conduct a business similar to that of junk dealers in ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana by Louisiana Supreme Court (1858)
"The custom of merchants in this city of sending cotton to the pickeries is again
proven. It is also shown that the damaged cotton is allowed as a partial ..."
3. Cotton Trade Guide and Student's Manual: A Text-book for the American Trade by Thomas Southworth Miller (1915)
"To prepare such cotton for market, "pickeries" have been established in several
of the ... For this purpose "pickeries" and compresses prepare platforms for ..."
4. Essays in Taxation by Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman (1895)
"pickeries and seed-oil mills, and on the gross income of gas-works, ... waterworks,
cotton compresses, cotton pickeries, slaughter houses, ..."
5. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1859)
"C55 bales; on the bluffe and at the railroad depots 344 bales ; at the pickeries
15 bales ; in private sheds 4197 ..."
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