What is "hen yard"

Usage examples of "hen yard".

Then she gestured to the gate leading from the kitchen garden and the hen yard.

First the kennels,and then the stables, and then the forge, the toolshed, the workshop,the storerooms, the pigsty, the sheepfolds -- I'm sorry, that'swrong, it was the hen yard -- the hen yard, the sheepfolds, thebarn, and the wall of the orchard.

Three rough-clad men in the hen yard, though, spotted Zaranda and loosed a volley of arrows at her from their short bows.

In silk and vair, golden chains, ostrich plumes, cordovan hose, slashed and puffed sleeves, curl-toed shoes, the English showed like peacocks in a hen yard.

If you go up on your roof on a dear night, the stars look so plentiful you would think that planets very much like Earth must he as common as eggs in a hen yard.

The fellow's nasty as a cock who's been kicked out of the hen yard.

Meiglin plunged through the side door, clambered over the midden, and fled at reckless speed across the baked earth of the hen yard.

In the hen yard and the rest of the animal world, a pecking order or its equivalent is soon established to minimize useless and disruptive battles over supremacy and mating rights.

Mind, some of them were no prizes, either, acting like chickens in the hen yard, turning, when pecked, to hammer on those beneath them.