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Chickens and turkeys
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poultry
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a domesticated gallinaceous bird though to be descended from the red jungle fowl [syn: domestic fowl , fowl ] flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A poultry was the office in a medieval household responsible for the purchase and preparation of poultry , as well as the room in which the poultry was stored. It was headed by a poulter or poulterer (though this last term is more often for a merchant who ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"domestic fowls," late 14c. (mid-14c. as "place where poultry is sold"), from Old French pouletrie "domestic fowl" (late 13c.), from pouletier "dealer in domestic fowl," from poulet "young fowl" (see pullet ).
Usage examples of poultry.
It was a little amusing to me that I could speak with some authority to skilled and experienced agriculturists, who felt our rivalry at Mark lane, but who did not dream that with the third great move of Australia towards the markets of the world through cold storage we could send beef, mutton, lamb, poultry, eggs, and all kinds of fruit to the consumers of Europe, and especially of England and its metropolis.
And, replacing the daguerreotype, Soames took a taxi to the Poultry, reflecting as he went.
Larson says Allison was blackmailing you, that she had information that suggested you were taking kickbacks from Caravan Foods in exchange for your power and influence on legislation regulating the poultry industry.
Life passed on so peacefully and pleasantly that I was half inclined to think of taking a farm near the Leys at the end of my term, and asking Jane to help with the dairy, poultry, cider, and housekeeping department.
What do Emperor Staghorn Beetle and the loonie moldies want N-dimensional Perplexing Poultry for?
Cackleberry Poulette carried the ailing fryer to his awaiting limousine and rode in silence back to Poulette Farms Poultry corporated.
They continued their purposeful walk along the corridors of Poulette Farms Poultry orporated toward the abattoir.
Remo noticed, on driving up the wide strip of asphalt that serviced Poulette Farms Poultry corporated, was the unnatural quiet.
Because some animal tumors, like poultry sarcoma, are caused by viruses, a lot of people set to work hunting like mad for all kinds of cancer viruses.
I dined with him this day at the house of my friends, Messieurs Edward and Charles Dilly, booksellers in the Poultry: there were present, their elder brother Mr.
My worthy booksellers and friends, Messieurs Dilly in the Poultry, at whose hospitable and well-covered table I have seen a greater number of literary men, than at any other, except that of Sir Joshua Reynolds, had invited me to meet Mr.
Smaller merchants, like the Musser women and the Eshelmans, who dealt in poultry, stopped before reaching the center of town and backed their sleighs against the open curb.
Formally, Perplexing Poultry was about the idea that space can be thought of as a quasicrystal, that is, as a nonrepeating tessellation of two kinds of polyhedral cell.
Several times praus had been paddled out to the Amstel when the ship sailed near an island, eager to offer fruit and fish and poultry to crew and passengers.
As with poultry, to create an illusion of federal oversight, inspectors were authorized to reinspect six sides of beef-the equivalent of three cows-out of as many as 3,200 cattle per shift.