owlery

owlery

English

Etymology

owl +‎ -ery

Noun

owlery (plural owleries)

1. (zoology) An abode or a haunt of owls.
   • Thomas Carlyle

     Or perhaps there is now no heroic wisdom left in England; England, once the land of heroes, is itself sunk now to a dim owlery, and habitation of doleful creatures, intent only on money-making and other forms of catching mice […]

Translations

an abode or a haunt of owls

Hungarian: bagolyfészek (hu), bagolyodú (hu), bagolytanya (hu)

References

• owlery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Lowery, Lowrey, Rowley, Worley, lowery, yowler