barnyard

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Roosters crow because they hear other roosters crowing, to show that a certain place in the barnyard is their turf, to try and assert their authority over another rooster, or even to gloat when a hen cackles after laying an egg.

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  • The palace was a far more desirable place to live than the barnyard, and I strove to be a model pupil. —  Magazine - Fantasy and Science Fiction - [Vol 112] - Issue 02 - February 2007
  • The two animals had been investigating the farmer's barnyard, and had missed all the excitement. —  083 - The Other World
  • A barnyard, a conglomeration of pigs and geese, and then a stone farmhouse with a sagging roof, a telephone line looping across the fields to it the only sign that this was still the twentieth century. —  The Luxembourg Run
  • Outside there was a barnyard, and a two-story hencoop to be put to rights, with its brood of pet chickens each with its name,—Snowdrop, Crown Imperial, Queenie, Fawn, and the like decorative appellations. —  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • I drove slowly into the barnyard, and parked by the railings. —  Paid and Loving Eyes - Lovejoy - Jonathan Gash
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dunghill ·  barn-yard ·  farmyard ·  farm-yard ·  bantam ·  barn-door ·  coop ·  earsplitting ·  foxtail

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barnyard:   barnyards
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 

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