"Bury" — noun meaning?

Solution 1:

For the noun bury, wiktionary shows “A borough; a manor”. The OED shows similar meanings: “A manor-house, or large farm ; a specialization of the OE burh, byrig ‘an enclosed or fortified place’ which still survives in many local names...”.”

Solution 2:

It's probably a bit Too Localised, but bury can be used as a noun...

BURY: The amount of "bury" — that is, the depth between the mast step and the partners — must be determined. Too little bury makes for a disproportionately large amount of leverage force that has to be absorbed by step and partners. If you have any difficulty understanding these forces, take a pencil and using your fingers as partners and step, vary the "bury" and twist the pencil around to simulate the forces applied to a mast.

But the fact that the writer there enclosed two out of three usages in "quotes" is a strong indicator even he didn't think this was a standard term.

Somewhat more frequently, it's also used to mean rabbit burrow. I have the impression this particular usage often occurs in the context of using ferrets to drive rabbits above ground.

The 'bury' is still used to describe rabbit (coney) burrows

Solution 3:

Dictionary.com lists one noun for bury:

Nautical. housing (def. 8a, b)

So it's listed as a synonym for a nautical term: housing.

Here's the definition for housing :

(8.) Nautical.

a. Also called bury. the portion of a mast below the deck.

b. Also called bury. the portion of a bowsprit aft of the forward part of the stem of a vessel.

c. the doubling of an upper mast.