Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A poultry farm.
- noun A coop or cage for poultry; a chicken coop.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place where fowls are kept; a poultry-yard.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun United States An inclosed place for keeping hens.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun rare A place where
domestic fowl , such as chickens, arereared ; a poultryfarm .
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Examples
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A worker, left, collects eggs at a hennery in Changzhi.
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China's Tainted-Eggs Scare Reuters A worker collects eggs at a hennery in Changzhi, in China's Shanxi province, on Oct. 27.
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The ancestor whose will says, "And I leave to my derely belovd children viz: anna mariah jane martha john hennery mary louizer and stephen" did not have nine children.
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At left, a worker collected eggs at a hennery in Changzhi, Shanxi province, China, on Monday.
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A straggling old house, painted yellow, and set down between a corn-field and the village pasture for family cows; old walnut trees growing close to its back and front, young walnut trees thrusting themselves unhindered through beet and tomato patches, and even through the roof of the hennery in the rear, which had been rebuilt to accommodate them, spreading a heavy shade all about, picturesque but unprofitable.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various
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The day is fast passing when the farm consists of a tobacco barn, a pig pen, a cow stable and a hennery.
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The common opinion that the farm-raised hen that has free range is healthier or happier than her sister in a well-ordered hennery is not based on facts.
The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm John Williams Streeter
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There was work to be done if he would save the humble quarters of the family porkers from destruction, and the hennery as well.
Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast Frank V. Webster
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From near the end of this west pipe a 1-1/2-inch pipe was carried due north through the centre of the five-acre lot set apart for the hennery, and into the fields beyond.
The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm John Williams Streeter
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But one evening a commotion in the hennery informed her that the depredators were again at work.
Woman on the American Frontier William Worthington Fowler
hernesheir commented on the word hennery
Get thee to a hennery.
November 21, 2010