Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A young fowl, especially a turkey, chicken, or pheasant.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The young or chick of the domestic fowl, turkey, pheasant, guinea-fowl, and similar birds.
- To kill poultry.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A young chicken, partridge, grouse, or the like.
Etymologies
- Old English pulte, from Old French poulet ("young fowl"), diminutive of poule ("hen"), from Latin pulla. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English pult, short for polet, from Old French poulet, diminutive of poule, polle, hen; see poulard. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“So Joe put his face down to the level of the opening eggs and the first poult emerged, wet and confused.”
“Joe made a chirping, clucky noise, the poult looked him square in the eye, "and something very unambiguous happened in that moment".”
“That's a turkey poult, Pa explains to his appalled wife.”
“The kee kee is the sound a poult makes because it's too young to “break” a yelp.”
“Shooting a hen is no more wrong than shooting an antlerless deer, and after you've had a 10-pound hen or even a 6-pound poult roasted whole for Thanksgiving, a Butterball will never satisfy you again.”
“So Sayyar sprang up and going out to the desert caught an ostrich-poult and brought it to his lord.”
“Also the general idea is that no blood will impose upon the exerts, or jury of matrons, except that of a pigeon-poult which exactly resembles hymeneal blood — when not subjected to the microscope.”
“He persisted in dressing, as in his youth, in black silk stockings, shoes with gold buckles, breeches of black poult-de-soie, and a black coat, adorned with the red rosette.”
“Countrey under a hedge; and beside all these excellent parts, shee was crooke backt, poult footed, and went like a lame Mare in”
“She declared that for the last three years every turkey poult had gone, and that at last she was beginning to feel it.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘poult’.
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Especially
Being a list of words which have "especially" in their definitions.
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Logolepsy
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Discovered Scrabble Words
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lovage, khaf, tititi, leet, ketol, fon, ono, dunelike, braw, bocci, lutz, fano and 132 more...
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Flightful Forays
trips from El Nido
vireo, tanager, scaup, lark, killdear, falcon, cormorant, becard, avocet, accipiter, peregrine, remex and 135 more...
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Fabrics
Woven, knit and tatted fabrics. Other kinds of cloth, such as tapa and chamois are not included.
shikii, shantung, cotton, linen, tweed, wool, velour, velvet, velveteen, gabardine, chenille, silk and 550 more...
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Critters
cockle, cicada, appaloosa, brachiopod, bivalve, aye-aye, cygnet, alewife, chamois, ermine, drake, dugong and 381 more...
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Baby Animals
chick, crocklets, whelp, foal, duckling, eaglet, hatchling, fingerling, fry, polliwog, gosling, cheeper and 21 more...
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baby bird
chick, poult, gosling, cygnet, duckling, eaglet, nestling, fledgling, specious
Tweets
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