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fowlyard

fowlyard noun: an enclosure for keeping domesticated fowl.

Noun

fowlyard (plural fowlyards)

  1. An enclosure for keeping domesticated fowl.
    • One was a Possum, with one of those sharp, snooting, snouting sort of faces, and the other was a bulbous, boozy-looking Wombat in an old long-tailed coat, and a hat that marked him down as a man you couldn't trust in the fowl-yard.1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, First Slice
    • [A]nd what was worse a more eminently inquisitorial eye lurked in the Piper fowlyard.1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 128

Forms of fowlyard

pluralfowlyards

Origin of fowlyard

From fowl + yard.

Questions about fowlyard

What does fowlyard mean?
Fowlyard means an enclosure for keeping domesticated fowl.
What part of speech is fowlyard?
Fowlyard is a noun.
What is the plural of fowlyard?
The plural of fowlyard is fowlyards.

Words near fowlyard in the dictionary

  1. fowllike
  2. fowlpox
  3. fowlpoxvirus
  4. fowlpoxviruses
  5. fowls
  6. fowlyard
  7. fowlyards
  8. Fownes
  9. Fowneses
  10. Fownhope
  11. fowrah

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