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Chicken yard   /tʃˈɪkən jɑrd/   Listen
Chicken yard

noun
1.
An enclosed yard for keeping poultry.  Synonyms: chicken run, fowl run, hen yard.






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"Chicken yard" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mrs. Bond, coming in from the chicken yard just then, in time to hear her husband's ...
— The Curlytops at Uncle Frank's Ranch • Howard R. Garis

... her grandmother went to the chicken yard and Grandfather started for the barn to ...
— Mary Jane—Her Visit • Clara Ingram Judson

... man thus challenged. "Will you take command? I'm many times proved incompetent on such occasions, and I feel sure Mother trusted to your generalship." And together they went through the garden and over into the chicken yard. ...
— The Road to Providence • Maria Thompson Daviess

... stored her brain with a huge mass of information to be digested at her leisure. Billy, too, was interested, but he left the talking to Saxon, himself rarely asking a question. At the rear of the bungalow, where everything was as clean and orderly as the front, they were shown through the chicken yard. Here, in different runs, were kept several hundred ...
— The Valley of the Moon • Jack London



Words linked to "Chicken yard" :   hen yard, fowl run, chicken run, yard



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