gullery

noun — 2 senses

gullery

noun

Etymology From gull + -ery.

1

Archaic An act, or the practice, of gulling i.e. trickery, cheating or fraud.

2

A colony of gulls.

  • 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.1901, Edmund Selous, Bird Watching, page 128:

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