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stewers

stewers is the plural of stewer.

Meaning of stewer

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.

Questions about stewers

What is stewers the plural of?
Stewers is the plural of stewer.

Words near stewers in the dictionary

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

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