A place where eels are caught, stored, processed, or sold; an eel fishery.
From 'eel' with the place-name suffix '-ery' (from Old English '-ern' or French '-erie'). Similar to 'fishery' or 'bakery.'
Eeleries were medieval aquatic factories with complex systems for keeping eels alive in tanks and barrels before selling them—the technology shows eels were valuable enough to warrant specialized infrastructure.
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