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Of or pertaining to tin mining, especially in Cornwall. quotations examples
The stannary courts of Devonshire and Cornwall, for the administration of justice among the tinners therein, are also courts of record.
1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press
plural stannaries
A tin mine or tinworks. quotations examples
If by publike lavv the mint vvere ordained to be onely ſupplyed by our ſtanneries, hovv currantly vvould they paſs for more precious then ſilver mines?
1648, J[oseph] Hall, chapter XVII, in Select Thoughts: Or, Choice Helps for a Pious Spirit. […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Brooke, […], published 1654, page 186