Reverse Dictionary: POULTRY

ADJECTIVES
► GALLINIVOROUS feeding on fowls or poultry → 1862

INTERJECTIONS
► TIC! a call to poultry → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)

NOUNS
► BARTON an enclosure for poultry; a pen → 1552 obs.
► BEAK-HUNTING poultry-stealing → c1920 US tramps’ sl.
► GRUNGY the smallest of a brood of poultry → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LEAF the inner layer of fat of a pig or of poultry → 1750 Eng. dial.
► LEAF-FAT the inner layer of fat of a pig or of poultry → 1750 Eng. dial.
► ORNITHON a place in which birds are kept; a poultry house; an aviary → 1870
► PALENQUE a place for bringing up poultry → 1707 Jamaica
► PULTER an edible fowl; collectively, poultry → 1474 obs.
► RICHARD the cock bird in poultry → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► RUNWAY a part of a coop or pen in which fowl may roam freely → 1871

NOUNS – PERSON
► CHICKEN-BUTCHER a poulterer → L18 sl.
► CHICKEN GRANNY one who raises chickens for the market; usually applied derisively to ‘furriners’ → 1936 Amer. dial.
► CRAM-MAID a woman who crams or fattens fowls; a poultry-woman → 1622 obs.
► FEATHER-GROOM a man who has charge of poultry → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GUT-PULLER a poulterer → c1850 obs.
► STRANGLE-GOOSE a poulterer → 1905 sl. (Bk.)
► TURKEY MERCHANT one who buys and sells turkeys, a poulterer → L17

VERBS
► FARCE to stuff poultry; to garnish poultry → 1927 Amer. dial.