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table bird

table bird noun: a chicken or other poultry raised for meat (as opposed to laying eggs); a wild bird hunted for its meat.

Noun

table bird (plural table birds)

  1. A chicken or other poultry raised for meat (as opposed to laying eggs); a wild bird hunted for its meat.
    • Coordinate term: layer
    • Among table birds, the partridge is so very abundant in some localities that it seems like butchery to kill them by the half dozen.1884, William Edwin Hamilton, Muskoka Sketch, page 36

table bird meaning in Tamil

table bird in Tamil

இறைச்சிக்கோழி

Examples of table bird in a sentence

  • […] she ran chickens on quite a big scale now, and made a few pounds every month from eggs and table birds;1950, Doris Lessing, chapter 7, in The Grass Is Singing, published 1969, page 128:
  • The leader called, himself unfortunately plump as a table bird, ‘Let them listen to the crying-out of the empty guts of the workers.’1962, Anthony Burgess, chapter 6, in The Wanting Seed, published 1965, section 2, page 88:

Forms of table bird

pluraltable birds

Questions about table bird

What does table bird mean?
Table bird means a chicken or other poultry raised for meat (as opposed to laying eggs); a wild bird hunted for its meat.
What is table bird in Tamil?
Table bird in Tamil is இறைச்சிக்கோழி. See Table bird meaning in Tamil.
How do you use table bird in a sentence?
[…] she ran chickens on quite a big scale now, and made a few pounds every month from eggs and table birds;
What part of speech is table bird?
Table bird is a noun.
What is the plural of table bird?
The plural of table bird is table birds.

Words near table bird in the dictionary

  1. table beers
  2. table beet
  3. table beets
  4. table bell
  5. table bells
  6. table bird
  7. table birds
  8. table board
  9. table boarder
  10. table boarders
  11. table boards

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Adapted from Wiktionary: table bird (page history and authors); table bird (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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