Definition of "pinery" [pin•er•y]

• A hothouse or plantation where pineapples are grown. (noun)
• A forest of pine trees. (noun)

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• "During July 1867. the Fort Phil Kearny woodchoppers opened full operations in the pinery several miles from the fort A small company of soldiers under major J. W. Powell—whose place Fetterman had taken the day he was slain—was stationed nearby."
• "In order that small details of men might be sent to the timber to fell trees and cut logs, a blockhouse was constructed near the pinery, seven miles from the fort."
• "They even raided the blockhouse near the pinery, fired in through the loopholes, and scalped one luckless private alive."