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stewer

stewer noun: a bird (especially, a chicken) suitable for cooking by stewing.

Noun

stewer (plural stewers)

  1. A bird (especially, a chicken) suitable for cooking by stewing.
    • In the 1960's culling hens and cockerels accounted for the main share of all live poultry exports. In more recent years, exports of live stewers, ducks, and geese have trended downward while foreign trade of live broilers and turkeys has greatly increased.1972, Cline Jefferson Warren, The Netherlands Poultry Meat Industry, page 4
  2. Someone who stews food.
  3. (Southern US, colloquial) A lidded pot with a handle, suitable for stewing.

Forms of stewer

pluralstewers

Origin of stewer

From stew + -er.

Questions about stewer

What does stewer mean?
Stewer means a bird (especially, a chicken) suitable for cooking by stewing.
What part of speech is stewer?
Stewer is a noun.
What is the plural of stewer?
The plural of stewer is stewers.

Words near stewer in the dictionary

  1. stewed in one's own gravy
  2. stewed in one's own grease
  3. stewed in one's own juice
  4. stewed in one's own juices
  5. stewed up
  6. stewer
  7. stewers
  8. Stewiacke
  9. Stewie
  10. stewing
  11. stewing in one's juices

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