Loomery

At some places there extended between the foot of the "loomery" and the sea a stone-bestrewn beach, which at high water was mostly covered by the sea, and at low water was full of shallow salt-water pools. ❋ Alexander Leslie (1866)

If a shot be fired at a "loomery," the fowl fly away in thousands from their hatching places, without the number of those that are not frightened away being apparently diminished. ❋ Alexander Leslie (1866)

The bears had evidently been on the hunt for looms, which along with their young, large as rotges and already able to swim, were swimming in the pools of water at the foot of the "loomery," and above all perhaps they were lying in wait for birds which by some accident happened to fall down from the breeding-place. ❋ Alexander Leslie (1866)

An unceasing, unpleasant cackling noise indicates that a continual gossip goes on in the "loomery"; and that the unanimity there is not great, is proved by the passionate screams which are heard now and then. ❋ Alexander Leslie (1866)

One discovers. for example, that loomery is a term used to describe a colony of Guillemots a species known as the Common Murres in the U.S. ❋ John L. Trapp (2002)