poultryman

American  

[pohl-tree-muhn] / ˈpoʊl tri mən /

noun

poultrymen plural

1. a person who raises domestic fowls, especially chickens, to sell as meat; a chicken farmer.

2. a poultry dealer, especially one who sells chickens at retail for cooking.

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poultryman British  

/ ˈpəʊltrɪmən /

noun

1. Also called: chicken farmer.  a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat

2. a dealer in poultry, esp one who sells the dressed carcasses

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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• poultrymen
  plural

Etymology

Origin of poultryman

First recorded in 1565–75; poultry + -man

Example Sentences

Then a Jersey poultryman brought a sick chicken to the poultry pathologist at Rutgers for a diagnosis.

From Time Magazine Archive

A hulking, ruddy-faced Michigander with a gift for promotion, Hannah was born in Grand Rapids, the son of a Unitarian poultryman and an Irish Catholic schoolmarm.

From Time Magazine Archive

Six years ago a short, swart poultryman named Paul Onorato decided to do something about a fowl-killing device which would instantly stun and immobilize the victim.

From Time Magazine Archive

For the commercial poultryman, I shall review what has been accomplished and state briefly the theories upon which contemplated work is based.

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

The poultryman from whom Gram and Gramps had bought the original stock had traded fourteen young pullets for fourteen of Bud's pullets and three of Bud's cockerels, with Bud paying express charges both ways.

From The Black Fawn by Kjelgaard, James Arthur