hennery

American  

[hen-uh-ree] / ˈhɛn ə ri /

noun

• henneries
  plural

1. a place where poultry is kept or raised.

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hennery British  

/ ˈhɛnərɪ /

noun

1. a place or farm for keeping poultry

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• henneries
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of hennery

First recorded in 1855–60; hen + -ery

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Example Sentences

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hennery henneries

If the agency quit, egg prices would sag to 15 or 20 cents, putting many a hennery out of business.

From Time Magazine Archive

So with the output of the hennery, the apiary, the blacksmith-shop in the place.

From Children of the Tenements by C. M. (Charles Mark) Relyea

Since the fowls must have gravel and water, it was decided that the hennery should extend a little into the creek, and close beside its sloping bank the structure was erected.

From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Stanley Waterloo

A quail is but an inferior chicken—a poor relation outside the exclusive hennery.

From There's Pippins and Cheese to Come by Charles S. (Charles Stephen) Brooks

The only thing they need is an incubator, to keep up their hennery department an' supply their captains with the yellow legs of the land.

From The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by John Trotwood Moore

After looking over the last details of the toolsheds and henneries we were riding home under the over-arching elms down Bran Lane.

From Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire by Edward Lucas White

These and the barnyards' manure and the dirt from henneries and swamps that were swept by the waters have all been carried down into the Allegheny River.

From The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin by James Herbert Walker

These trade fancies take their origin in the circumstances of there being large henneries in the respective localities producing the particular class of eggs.

From The Dollar Hen by Milo M. (Milo Milton) Hastings

The few new laid lots received direct from henneries command extreme prices—sometimes working out in a small way above any figures that could fairly be quoted as a wholesale value.

From The Dollar Hen by Milo M. (Milo Milton) Hastings

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