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Answer for the clue "Man with a poultry income? ", 6 letters:
perdue

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Word definitions for perdue in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Perdue may refer to: Perdue (surname) Perdue, Saskatchewan , Canada Perdue No. 346, Saskatchewan , Canada Perdue Farms , an American chicken-farming corporation Perdue School of Business , in Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perdu \Per*du"\, Perdue \Per*due"\ (p[~e]r*d[=u]" or p[~e]r"d[-u]), a. [F. perdu, f. perdue, lost, p. p. of perdre to lose, L. perdere. See Perdition .] Lost to view; in concealment or ambush; close. He should lie perdue who is to walk the round. --Fuller. ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (alternative spelling of perdu English) 2 (context obsolete English) Accustomed to, or employed in, desperate enterprises; reckless; hopeless.

Usage examples of perdue.

Of all the boys on board that plane, Daniel Perdue looked least like a soldier.

Breakfast done, Perdue and Griswald walked back to the tent together and began to wait, for what and for how long, they did not know.

At the appointed time, Perdue, Griswald and the other new men formed up in front of the orderly room.

With that, Wilkerson ducked back into the tent and left Perdue and Jenkins alone.

When Daniel Perdue saw Bill Rose for the first time, the squad leader was cleaning his M16.

Rose and Perdue moved through the service line with their mess kits, then found Wilson and Perez.

Rose and Perdue stood in the back of the supply tent, just inside the back flap, and waited for Supply Sergeant Dino Canella to return from a leisurely breakfast.

Rose motioned to Perdue and the two of them left the tent and walked through the rain back to their tent.

Rose put Wilson, with the radio, and Perdue at the position that faced east, the one that looked down upon the base camp.

Rose returned to the foxhole where Wilson and Perdue were dropping their gear and unbuckled and dropped his own harness.

Wilson took up position in the foxhole and Rose and Perdue settled down in the hooch to sleep.

Daniel Perdue, for the first time, realized how close he came to being killed, and it scared him.

He left Perez, Minniefield and Terwilliger to man the foxhole on the west end of the bridge and he took Wilson and Perdue across the engineer bridge and up to the position at the east end, across the highway from the old French bunker.

The squad leader remembered that Wilson had taken weeks to get used to talking on the radio and made a mental note that Perdue seemed to have a knack for it.

Rose again divided the squad into two groups: he kept Wilson and Perdue with him and sent Perez, Minniefield and Terwilliger to dig their holes thirty yards to the right.