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poult

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5 lettersPronunciation /pɒlt/Sorted loptuStarts with PEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. A young bird, a chick; now especially, a young game bird (turkey, partridge, grouse etc.).

Word origin

From Middle English pult, a variant of pulet, polet, from Old French poulet (“young fowl”), diminutive of poule (“hen”), from Latin pulla. For the development of the stressed vowel, see poultry. Doublet of pullet.

Used in a sentence

  • ‘I even questioned,’ said he, ‘whether there will not be, in about a week's time, some nice turkey powts.’
  • And, besides, she [the old grouse's wife] was the mother of a family, and had seven little poults to wash and feed every day; […]
  • After an hour of fishing I saw a flock of turkeys on the opposite bank and shot one of the poults.

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