chickenry

plural chickenries · alternative chickenery

1. countablerareA hen house or chicken coop, a place in which chickens are reared.

   Not "by the brook," as Halleck sings, but by the chickenry,

   1857, Maria Honetcombe, “Letters from la Ruche”, in Arthur's Home Magazine

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   The bio-gas could also utilize waste from piggeries, chickeneries and human beings.

   1980, Jyoti K. Parikh, Energy systems and development

   The chickenry next door, which looked suspiciously small to house a thousand birds, was also a complete wreck.

   1994, Samantha Weinberg, Last of the pirates: the search for Bob Denard

alternative checkenary

1. misspellingMisspelling of chicanery.

   […]elaborate tissues of circumstantial falsehood, chickenry, perjury, forgery, are the weapons, offensive and defensive, of the people of[…]

   1991, Iqbal Ansari Khan, The third eye: glimpses of the politicos

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   It is not necessary to advert in any detail to the chickenry adopted by the two Priests who cooked up this theory or the story leading thereto[…]

   1988, Pingle Jaganmohan Reddy, In search of unity and secularism