fat hen

British  

noun

1. Also called (US): pigweed, lamb's-quarters. a common plant, Chenopodium album , with small green flowers and whitish scales on the stem and leaves: family Chenopodiaceae (chenopods)

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fat hen

A fine fat hen, peacefully picking a worm, found the tables suddenly turned.

From Harper's Round Table, September 10, 1895 by Various

VARIATION.—For younger players, the following list may be found better:— A big fat hen.

From Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium by Jessie Hubbell Bancroft

"My mother killed a fat hen yesterday, sir, and you'll have a lump of bacon and flat dutch along wid it."

From The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton

By and by a fat hen walked over to the bars of the cowyard and hopped up on the lower bar.

From Bowser the Hound by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

A fat hen ceases to lay, or nearly, while an over-fed cock becomes lazy and useless, and may die of apoplexy.

From Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. by Hugh Piper

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