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Brooder

noun
1.
Apparatus consisting of a box designed to maintain a constant temperature by the use of a thermostat; used for chicks or premature infants.  Synonym: incubator.



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"Brooder" Quotes from Famous Books



... eggs and fowls is steadily advancing, a great many people are now raising fowls by means of an incubator for hatching, and a brooder as a ...
— Agriculture for Beginners - Revised Edition • Charles William Burkett
... The Scarlet Letter as "a drama of the spirit." It is a story such as only one who had brooded deeply on the problem of evil could write. Hawthorne was a "solitary brooder upon life." Every one who knew him testified to this impression. When William Dean Howells, a young man from Ohio, knocked at the door of the Wayside Cottage, a letter of introduction in his hand, and a feeling of hero-worship in his heart, he was ushered into the presence of the great romancer, ...
— Stories of Authors, British and American • Edwin Watts Chubb


Words linked to "Brooder" :   setup, brood, thermoregulator, thermostat, apparatus


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