Other forms: dairies
A dairy is the place where milk is handled and made into butter and cheese. The dairy herd, a dairy farm, work in the dairy.
A cow gives milk only after calving, which is why dairy farming and beef farming are tied together whether anybody likes it or not. The word comes from an Old English word for a female servant who made bread, later the one who handled milk.
1noundairyA place where milk is handled and processed.
“The milk is taken from the farm to the dairy, where it is turned into butter and cheese.”
dairy is a place, or an industry.
Middle English deyerie comes from dey, a female servant who made bread and later handled milk, from Old English daege.
Proto-Indo-European
*dʰeyǵʰ-
Anglo-Norman
deyerie — dairy
Middle English
deyerie — dairy, dairy farm
English, today
dairy
Middle English deyerie (“dairy, dairy farm”), from Anglo-Norman deyerie (“dairy”), from deye + -erie; by surface analysis, dey + -ry. Cognate with Scots dery, dyrie.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA