Definition of Chicken coop

1. Noun. A farm building for housing poultry.

Exact synonyms: Coop, Hencoop, Henhouse
Generic synonyms: Farm Building

Definition of Chicken coop

1. Noun. a building, often wooden, in which a small number of poultry are housed ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chicken Coop

chicken-wings
chicken Kiev
chicken Marengo
chicken Tetrazzini
chicken anaemia virus
chicken and rice
chicken breast
chicken broth
chicken burger
chicken cacciatora
chicken cacciatore
chicken cannon
chicken cannons
chicken colonel
chicken coop (current term)
chicken coops
chicken cordon bleu
chicken drumstick
chicken embryo lethal orphan virus
chicken farm
chicken fat clot
chicken feed
chicken fillet
chicken guinea
chicken gun
chicken hawks
chicken leg
chicken legs

Literary usage of Chicken coop

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"A chicken-coop. North. HUNCH- HOY, t. A page. HEN-COWER, i. The position of sitting on one's heel.-. Dark. HENDE. (1) adj. (A.-S.\ Gentle; polite. ..."

2. The Decameron, Or Ten Day's Entertainment of Boccaccio: A Rev. Translation by Giovanni Boccaccio (1855)
"... goes to sup at a friend's house; his wife, in the mean time, has her gallant: Pietro returns, when she hides him under a chicken coop. ..."

3. Good English, Oral and Written by William Harris Elson, Lura E. Runkel, Clara E. Lynch, George Linnaeus Marsh (1920)
"LESSON 134 — COMPOSITION Tell how to make a chicken coop, using this outline: Subject: How to Make a chicken coop. (a) Material needed, (b) How made. ..."

4. Across the Andes by Charles Johnson Post (1912)
"CHAPTER II THE FIGHTING WHALE AND CHINAMEN IN THE chicken coop THE hot days drifted by in easy sociability, dividing themselves into a pliant routine. ..."

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