WordNet
n. a domestic hen ready to brood [syn: brood hen, broody, broody hen, sitter]
Usage examples of "setting hen".
Adam was trying to arrange the letters information in his mind, and it was as restless as a setting hen scrounging into the nest.
If there were not this war I would tie a handkerchief to the bush and come back in the daytime and search out the nest and I could take the eggs and put them under a setting hen and when they hatched we would have little partridges in the poultry yard and I would watch them grow and, when they were grown, I'd use them for callers.
If there were not this war I would tie a handkerchief to the bush and come back in the daytime and search out the nest and I could take the eggs and put them under a setting hen and when they hatched we would have little partridges in the poultry yard and I would watch them grow and, when they were grown, I’.