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DISTILLERY

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 I. (noun) 

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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)

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