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Definition of Chicken run
1. Noun. An enclosed yard for keeping poultry.
Definition of Chicken run
1. Noun. An enclosed area, attached to a chicken coop, in which poultry are allowed to run around and peck. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chicken Run
Literary usage of Chicken run
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Home Grounds by Alexander F Oakley (1881)
"25 is a diagram of such a chicken- CHICKEN House chicken run CHICKEN HOUSE ...
chicken run house as we would advise, the dispositions remaining the same ..."
2. Tom Tug and Others: Sketches in a Domestic Menagerie by Alice Murray Dew-Smith (1898)
"Examination of the chicken run showed a hole in the wire-netting near ...
Every day for a week was the chicken run mended, and every day did Jones escape. ..."
3. The Practical Poultry Keeper by Lewis Wright (1904)
"Protected chicken run. minutes, and form a nice warm bed for the chicks, clean
and sweet, and much better than straw. Cats sometimes make sad inroads on the ..."
4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1898)
"... wired over like a chicken-run, where thousands of niggers are fenced in for
months at a time, but they don't seem to mind it ; the little cars which run ..."
5. The Book of Poultry by Lewis Wright (1885)
"We have for the last six years always protected a chicken-run in this way, .:nd
would strongly advise the plan to others, as we never lost a chick since. ..."
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