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marsh hen
noun
- any of various rails or raillike birds.
marsh hen
noun
- any bird that frequents marshes and swamps, esp a rail, coot, or gallinule
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Word History and Origins
Origin of marsh hen1
An Americanism dating back to 1700–10
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Example Sentences
Is it known to the little marsh-hen that cunningly builds her nest at the foot of the sedges?
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Sedge′-hen, a marsh-hen; Sedge′-war′bler, a reed-warbler, the sedge-wren.
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Marsh-Hen, much the same as in Europe, only she makes another sort of Noise, and much shriller.
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In the meantime he would not rob that marsh hen's nest which he had found.
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