granarys

English

Noun

granarys

  1. (obsolete) plural of granary
    • 1664 July 4 (date written; Gregorian calendar)​, Samuel Pepys; Mynors Bright, transcriber, “June 24th, 1664”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume (please specify |volume=I to X), London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893–1899, →OCLC:
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      Up and out with Captain Witham in several places again to look for oats for Tangier, and among other places to the City granarys […]
    • 1751, William Paterson; John Law, Proposals and Reasons for Constituting a Council of Trade in Scotland:
      […] this considerable consumption of grain by the poor will not only greatly contribute to the keeping up and maintaining the granarys, and help to give the corn a natural currency at home […]
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