Now only Hist. Also 5–6 vaccarie, 6 vaccharie, 7 vacharie. [ad. med.L. vaccaria, f. L. vacca cow. Cf. VACHERY, and Pg. vacaria herd of cows.] A place where cows are kept or pastured; a dairy-farm.
1471. in Archaeol., XLVII. 195. Th’issues, prouffites, and revenues coming … of the ferme of the vaccarie of Sleigholme.
1545. Act 37 Hen. VIII., c. 16. One parcell of lond called the Vaccharie, conteyninge by estimacion threscore Acres.
1594. Crompton, Jurisd., 194. Without warrant no subiect may haue within the forest a vaccarie.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Vaccary, alias vacharie, seemes to be a house to keep kine or cowes in. [Hence in Phillips, etc.]
1815. Dickson, Lancashire, 13. The Forest of Wyersdale … being distributed into twelve different tracts … which still retain the ancient title of vaccaries or cow-pastures.
[1863. J. R. Walbran, Mem. Fountains Abbey (Surtees), 343, note. To render annually of the profits of the vaccary twenty six stones eight pounds of butter.]
