stewer

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noun

A bird (especially, a chicken) suitable for cooking by stewing.

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Meanings

nounstewer (plural stewers)

plural stewers

  1. A bird (especially, a chicken) suitable for cooking by stewing.

    In the 1960's culling hens and cockerels accounted for the main share of all live poultry exports. In more recent years, exports of live stewers, ducks, and geese have trended downward while foreign trade of live broilers and turkeys has greatly increased.

    1972, Cline Jefferson Warren, The Netherlands Poultry Meat Industry, page 4
  2. Someone who stews food.
  3. Southern UScolloquialA lidded pot with a handle, suitable for stewing.

Origin

From stew + -er.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

wester
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APA

stewer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stewer

MLA

“stewer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stewer. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “stewer,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stewer.

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