fowlyard

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noun

An enclosure for keeping domesticated fowl.

Scrabble 18

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nounfowlyard (plural fowlyards)

plural fowlyards

  1. An enclosure for keeping domesticated fowl.

    [A]nd what was worse a more eminently inquisitorial eye lurked in the Piper fowlyard.

    1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 128
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    One was a Possum, with one of those sharp, snooting, snouting sort of faces, and the other was a bulbous, boozy-looking Wombat in an old long-tailed coat, and a hat that marked him down as a man you couldn't trust in the fowl-yard.

    1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, First Slice

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