Poultry Definition

pōltrē
noun
Domestic fowls raised for meat or eggs; chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, etc. collectively.
Webster's New World
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pronoun

A street in the City between Cheapside and Cornhill.

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Origin of Poultry

  • Middle English pultrie from Old French pouletrie from pouletier poultry dealer from poulet pullet pullet

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French pouleterie, from poulet, diminutive of poule (“hen"), from Latin pullus ("chick")

    From Wiktionary

  • home of medieval feather dealers and stuffers

    From Wiktionary

Poultry Sentence Examples

  • Cattle and poultry are the principal classes of live stock.

  • Cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry are reared.

  • Poultry, bees and silkworms are commonly kept.

  • The chief elements of the native diet are rice, fish and poultry; vegetables and pork are also eaten.

  • Modern Cheapside merges eastward into the street called the Poultry, from the poulterers' stalls " but lately departed from thence," according to Stow, at the close of the 16th century.

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Words Starting With

PPOPOU

Words Ending With

YRYTRY

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