Poultry
['pəʊltrɪ] or ['poltri]
Definition
(noun.) flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food.
Editor: Nancy--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Domestic fowls reared for the table, or for their eggs or feathers, such as cocks and hens, capons, turkeys, ducks, and geese.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Domestic fowls.
Typist: Manfred
Unserious Contents or Definition
To see dressed poultry in a dream, foretells extravagant habits will reduce your security in money matters. For a young woman to dream that she is chasing live poultry, foretells she will devote valuable time to frivolous pleasure.
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Examples
- In our poultry, a large tuft of feathers on the head is generally accompanied by a diminished comb, and a large beard by diminished wattles. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- How rarely, on the other hand, do our civilised dogs, even when quite young, require to be taught not to attack poultry, sheep, and pigs! Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- First, in ancient times, almost all rents were paid in kind; in a certain quantity of corn, cattle, poultry, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But in countries almost waste, or but thinly inhabited, cattle, poultry, game of all kinds, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Mrs. Weston's poultry-house was robbed one night of all her turkeysevidently by the ingenuity of man. Jane Austen. Emma.
- And she had a deal to mind in the way of poultry and the like, and minded of it, and come through. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- In a country naturally fertile, but of which the far greater part is altogether uncultivated, cattle, poultry, game of all kinds, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Often those coming to see a son or brother would bring a dozen or two of poultry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Thus, in every farm, the offals of the barn and stable will maintain a certain number of poultry. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The captures consisted largely of cattle, sheep, poultry, some bacon, cornmeal, often molasses, and occasionally coffee or other small rations. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Live bees are shipped by express as easily as poultry or other live stock. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism are all very good words for the lips: especially prunes and prism. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Through the greater part of Scotland this custom still continues with regard to poultry, and in some places with regard to cattle. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Some landlords, instead of a rent in money, require a rent in kind, in corn, cattle, poultry, wine, oil, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Perhaps it is enhanced by a certain yellow play in Lady Tippins's throat, like the legs of scratching poultry. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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