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noun
A breeding colony of guillemots (seabirds of the genus Uria) or other auks, typically densely packed on a sea cliff; the cliff or ledges on which such seabirds breed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: colony
Antonyms: none provided
History
From loom (“guillemot, diver”) + -ery, with -ery in the sense of a place or a collection, on the model of rookery. First attested in the 1859 Arctic narrative of Francis Leopold McClintock.
