poultry-yard

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• poultry yard — poultˈry farm, poultry yard noun A farm or yard where poultry are bred or confined • • • Main Entry: ↑poultry …   Useful english dictionary

• poultry-farm — poultˈry farm, poultry yard noun A farm or yard where poultry are bred or confined • • • Main Entry: ↑poultry …   Useful english dictionary

• yard — yard1 [yärd] n. [ME yerde < OE gierd, rod, staff, yard measure, akin to obs. Ger gerte, rod < IE * g̑hazdho , var. of base * ghasto , rod, pole > L hasta, pole, spear] 1. a) a unit of length in the FPS system, equal to 3 feet or 36… …   English World dictionary

• Poultry Compter — The Poultry Compter (also sometimes known as Poultry Counter) was a small compter or prison run by a Sheriff in the City of London from medieval times until 1815. It took its name from its location on a section of Cheapside known as Poultry due… …   Wikipedia

• yard — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English geard enclosure, yard; akin to Old High German gart enclosure, Latin hortus garden Date: before 12th century 1. a. a small usually walled and often paved area open to the sky and adjacent to a… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Poultry Alley —    A passage to the Poultry Compter (W. Stow, 1722). Called Poultry Compter Yard in Maitland, 1775 …   Dictionary of London

• Poultry Compter Yard —    See Poultry Alley …   Dictionary of London

• chicken yard — noun an enclosed yard for keeping poultry • Syn: ↑hen yard, ↑chicken run, ↑fowl run • Hypernyms: ↑yard …   Useful english dictionary

• hen yard — noun an enclosed yard for keeping poultry • Syn: ↑chicken yard, ↑chicken run, ↑fowl run • Hypernyms: ↑yard …   Useful english dictionary

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• Dido Elizabeth Belle — with her cousin Elizabeth, detail of a painting formerly thought to be by Johann Zoffany Dido Elizabeth Belle (1761 1804) was an illegitimate daughter of John Lindsay and an African slave woman known only as Belle. Very little is known about… …   Wikipedia