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pullet

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ They are to come from Grove Farm, just as you recommended, 12 Rhode Islands and 6 pullets.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A young hen, especially one less than a year old. (from 14th c.) 2 (context slang English) A spineless person; a coward.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. flesh of a medium-sized young chicken suitable for frying [syn: fryer , frier ] young hen usually less than a year old

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pullet \Pul"let\, n. [OE. polete, OF. polete, F. poulette, dim. of poule a hen, fr. L. pullus a young animal, a young fowl. See Foal , and cf. Poult , Poultry , Pool stake.] A young hen, or female of the domestic fowl. Pullet sperm , the treadle of an egg. ...

Usage examples of pullet.

Miss Fox, sez she, en she fotch de two fat pullets, en Brer Rabbit he mosied off home.

Sam reports the total hatch for the year as 1917 chicks, out of which number he had, when he separated them in the early autumn, 678 pullets to put in the runs for laying hens, and 653 cockerels to go to the fattening pens.

There were now on hand more than 1300 pullets and hens, and I instructed Sam to run his incubator overtime that season, so as to fill our houses by autumn.

I should need 800 or 900 pullets to make our quota good, for most of the older hens would have to be disposed of in the autumn,--all but about 200, which would be kept until the following spring to breed from.

By and by the Horsekeeper, to whom the charge of me was committed, brought forth all his substance, and laded me and other Horses withall, and so departed thence : we bare women, children, pullets, sparrowes, kiddes, whelpes, and other things which were not able to keepe pace with us, and that which I bare upon my backe, although it was a mighty burthen, yet seemed it very light because I was driven away from him that most terribly had appointed to kill me.

Uf he vants to abologize now I vont shood him drough der heart mit a pullet.

Half a bottle of Chambertin, a red mullet, or a pullet a la Marengo satisfy every need, but it is unwise to put pastry or cream upon the table, because he is as likely as not to eat it before the fowl.

By and by the Horsekeeper, to whom the charge of me was committed, brought forth all his substance, and laded me and other Horses withall, and so departed thence : we bare women, children, pullets, sparrowes, kiddes, whelpes, and other things which were not able to keepe pace with us, and that which I bare upon my backe, although it was a mighty burthen, yet seemed it very light because I was driven away from him that most terribly had appointed to kill me.

The good man of the house perceiving her, said : O good and profitable pullet that feedest us every day with thy fruit, thou seemest as though thou wouldest give us some pittance for our dinner : Ho boy put the Pannier in the corner that the Hen may lay.

In the chickenyard she caught a little pullet, took it to the block and chopped its head off, and held the writhing neck over the jelly jar until it was full of blood.

There were little sucking pigs in crisp suits of golden crackling, barons of beef running with their own rich juices set around with steaming ramparts of roasted potatoes, heaps of tender young pullets and pigeons and ducks and fat geese, five different types of fresh fish from the Atlantic, cooked five different ways, fragrant with the curries and spices of Java and Kandy and Further India, tall pyramids of the huge claw less crimson lobsters that abounded in this southern ocean, a vast array of fruits and succulent vegetables from the Company gardens, and sherbets and custards and sugar dumplings and cakes and trifles and confitures and every sweet delight that the slave chefs in the kitchens could conceive.

A dish of pullets and eggs, mutton chops, a prime ham, a good cut of beef, and the best of double Gloucester.

The landlord was not in his room, but in the kitchen, superintending the slicing of hams, the plucking of pullets and the spicing of great tankards of ale.

But there was no point in killing them until they started crowing and nailing the pullets and fighting each other.

Some of the flock was made up of the aging survivors of the pullets bestowed on her by Jane Colby as a wedding gift, but the majority embraced their more youthful descendants.