Etymograph

English

loomery

From loom (“guillemot, diver”) + -ery, with -ery in the sense of a place or a collection, on the model of rookery.

Formed from loom ‘guillemot, diver’ + -ery

Old English *lōma

Middle English lome ‘a machine, device, or instrument’

English loom

first attested First attested in the 1859 Arctic narrative of Francis Leopold McClintock (as stated in the etymology)

The story

First attested in the 1859 Arctic narrative of Francis Leopold McClintock.

Today it means

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.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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