Stannary is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 156 anagrams from letters in stannary (aannrsty).
1425-75; late Middle English Medieval Latin stannāria tin mine, equivalent to Late Latin stann(um) stannum + -āria -ary
The castle, an uninteresting ruin, occupies a natural mound artificially shaped; it was long the stannary prison.
Helston was one of the stannary Towns, and it was said that vessels could at one time come quite near it.
It is certain that Lydford ranked high among the stannary towns, and was a place of consequence.
Truro was formerly one of the towns having the privilege of stamping tin, and is the seat of the stannary Court.
The stannary Courts, we are informed, were utterly corrupt and saturated with the spirit of perjury and injustice.
Appeals from the stannary Courts may be made now to the higher courts of England.
But the tinners were under their own laws and officers, and their court, called the stannary Court, sat formerly at Lostwithiel.
The shire hall includes remains of a building, called the stannary prison, dating from the 13th century.
stannary, stan′ar-i, adj. of or relating to tin mines or works.
It was an active centre of mining, and became a stannary or coinage town.
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