What is "poult"

Usage examples of "poult".

But it was a hard jolt for Australia, to discover that the Mother Country was booting all her Far Eastern chicks out of the nest, even a poult as fat and promising as Australia.

Adam felt like saying that he could take care of Poly perfectly well by himself, but at this poult he thought it wiser not to cross the older man who was talking in a quiet but most deter mined way to the Swissair man, who finally smiled and nodded, shook hands with the canon, and then ushered the passengers out into the rain and onto the bus.

Causing special anxiety in American Airlines Freight was a shipment of several thousand turkey poults, hatched in incubators only hours earlier.

Significant also---if the poults were fed en route, they would stink, and so would the airplane conveying them, for days afterward.

A wild duck, when it has young poults, you see what an uproar it makes.

Now, allow me to escort you in to supper, and over crab patties, partridge poults, and lemon tartlets, I shall give due consideration to the matter of compensation owed for the blackening of my good name.

The procedure for leaving was the same as entering: armed men watched from different vantage poults about the grounds as Lora was blindfolded and then Max drove away.

Below the stairs the cook, hovering anxiously between a couple of fat turkey poults on the spits and a dish of buttered crab, called down uncouth curses on the heads of all women.

I took care of the poults when I was in high school, and they're so dumb!

These were exceptionally alert brambles, and the sheen on their poults suggested poison.