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Definition of Chicken yard
1. Noun. An enclosed yard for keeping poultry.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chicken Yard
Literary usage of Chicken yard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Birds of Ohio: A Complete Scientific and Popular Description of the 320 by Lynds. Jones, William Leon Dawson (1902)
"The Cooper Hawk is seldom seen except in the shelter of the woods, or as he is
making a quick dash into some populous chicken-yard. The audacity of the bird ..."
2. The Back Yard Farmer by John Willard Bolte (1914)
"Caring for the chicken yard VERY few people appreciate the importance of looking
after the chicken yard properly. It is usually a bare, slimy patch, ..."
3. M. Val. Martialis Epigrammata selecta =: Select epigrams from Martial by Martial, Frederick Apthorp Paley, William Henry Stone (1885)
"Sat. ii. 4. 30. then on a great occasion. 14. chortis] Birds from the chicken-yard
and the pond, ie chickens and ducks (Ep. 343. 1; 473. 11). ..."
4. The Bookman (1910)
"The chicken yard that was a Christmas Stocking. By Ellis Parker Butler. A chicken
thief visits the yard of the Widow Gratz, and in hastening away with her ..."
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