purgery

purgery
A room in which hogsheads full of sugar are placed in a standing or upright position for the purpose of being drained of the molasses contained in the sugar. V. & A. Meyer & Co. v Queen Ins. Co. 41 La Ann 1000, 6 So 899.

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