poult

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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.

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  1. noun A young fowl, especially a turkey, chicken, or pheasant.

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  • "In 1983, Willmar Poultry Co. developed new technology to automate poult (baby turkey) processing procedures," the group says in a statement. —  Postbulletin.com Local News
  • I ought to be eating a pheasant-poult by the middle of July. —  Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection
  • It might be put on table with its joints divided Mr. Gryll. As that turkey-poult is, Mr. MacBorrowdale; which gives my niece no trouble; but the precaution is not necessary with such a right-hand man as Lord Curryfin, who carves to perfection Mr. MacBorrowdale. Your arrangements are perfect. —  Gryll Grange
  • He let out an oath which I omit The affair has not gone so far as this blade shall go, turkey-poult," he thundered Make yourself quite easy on that point, my good sir," said Angioletto, cracking a walnut; "your sword shall fly the length of the room. —  Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso
  • That trouble had happened she could not look out of her window without knowing; but could it be right, at their time of life, to stand in the wet so, and challenge Providence, and spoil the first turkey-poult of the season But when she heard of her husband's peril, in the midst of all his losses, his self-command, and noble impulse first of all to rescue life, she burst into tears, and hugged and kissed me, and said the same thing nearly fifty times Just like him. —  Erema — My Father's Sin
 

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  1. Middle English pult, short for polet, from Old French poulet, diminutive of poule, polle, hen; see poulard.

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  1. Early modern English also powlt (and polt: see poult-foot); also dial. pout, powt; from Middle English pulte, a contr. of polete, a pullet, fowl: see pullet. Cf. poulter, poultry.
  2. from poult, n.
 

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