Synonyms:
domestic_fowl, fowl, poultry
Meaning: a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl
Usage examples
in the poultry yard?'
Miss G---- is an old maid, and a great lover of cats and poultry.
Their dentists filled teeth with gold; their farmers hatched poultry by artificial heat.
Old Martha stood in the middle of a mob of poultry scattering handfuls of grain around her.
The best broadcloth from Blackwell Hall, and the best poultry from Leadenhall Market, were frequently left at his door.
Out sprang the fox from the little brown basket and in the twinkling of an eye he fell upon the fowls of the royal poultry yard.
A basket of corn was on the floor by her side, and out in the yard the poultry were beginning to clamour a protest of overdue feeding-time.
He is usually in Miss Plantagenet's poultry yard, and I rarely go round there." Lucy paused. "It is strange that the boy should act like that.
Dwarf Long Nose--as he was always called--made a practice of doing his marketing as much as possible himself, and whenever time allowed went to the market to buy his poultry and fruit.
If, when I am busy, I ask him to go and feed the poultry, he is certain to give them some poisonous stuff instead of their proper food, and when I visit the yard next I find them all dead.