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DISTILLERY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A plant and works where alcoholic drinks are made by distillation
Synonyms:
distillery; still
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("distillery" is a kind of...):
industrial plant; plant; works (buildings for carrying on industrial labor)
Meronyms (parts of "distillery"):
Coffey still (a still consisting of an apparatus for the fractional distillation of ethanol from fermentation on an industrial scale)
Derivation:
distill (undergo the process of distillation)
distill (extract by the process of distillation)