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Definition of Chicken coop
1. Noun. A farm building for housing poultry.
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
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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