An archaic or dialectal term for a dairy or the place where dairy products are made and stored.
Variant spelling of 'dairy' from Middle English 'deyerie,' derived from Old English 'dægæs' (maidservant) and the suffix '-ery' (place or collection). The 'die' spelling is an obsolete variant showing how spelling shifted over centuries.
This word shows how the same concept gets spelled wildly differently across regions and time periods—'dairy,' 'deyerie,' 'dieyerie' all refer to the same place! English spelling wasn't standardized until the printing press became common.
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