hen run
- an enclosure for hens, esp one made of chicken wire
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Examples from the Web for hen run
Historical Examples
Just then I had a fancy for white creatures, and my hen-run was inhabited by white fowls only.
My Private MenagerieTheophile Gautier
Cant you take me to the hen-run and let me see your flock of biddies?
The Corner House Girls on Palm IslandGrace Brooks Hill
At that time I used to keep about fifty of various species in a hen-run.
The Animal Story BookVarious
The hens are alive, and she tried the gate entering upon the hen-run.
The Corner House GirlsGrace Brooks Hill
On this kind of description Rome might be called a hen-run and Greece a back yard.
The Insurrection in DublinJames Stephens