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pullet

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈpʊlɪt/Part of speech nounSorted ellptuStarts with PEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. young hen usually less than a year old

Word origin

From Middle English polet, pulet, from Anglo-Norman pullet, Old French poulet (“young chicken”); polette (“young hen”), from poule (“hen”), from Vulgar Latin pulla, feminine form of pullus. Doublet of poult. Compare also Middle English pulle. By surface analysis, pull(us) + -et.

Used in a sentence

  • They died not because the Pullets would not feed: but because the Devil foresaw their death, he contrived that abstinence in them.
  • The dinner-hour being arrived, Black George carried her up a pullet, the squire himself [...] attending the door.
  • he recommended that the patient [...] should be fed with chicken broth, and suggested that as all the poultry had gone to roost, Maggie would find a fat young pullet an easy capture.

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