poultryman
Americannoun
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poultrymen
plural
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a person who raises domestic fowls, especially chickens, to sell as meat; a chicken farmer.
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a poultry dealer, especially one who sells chickens at retail for cooking.
noun
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Also called: chicken farmer. a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat
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a dealer in poultry, esp one who sells the dressed carcasses
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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
Then a Jersey poultryman brought a sick chicken to the poultry pathologist at Rutgers for a diagnosis.
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
The poultryman has been a disciple of the poultry papers and poultry fanciers of the day.
From The Dollar Hen by Milo M. (Milo Milton) Hastings
She grew up and married a poultryman in Quay Street, Bristol.
From Poison Island by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Last week, when Undersecretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell called a trade meeting of Philadelphia and Boston poultrymen for Nov. 26, the cork of their wrath popped out of the bottle of their indignation.
From Time Magazine Archive
While thousands on thousands of soft-handed, pale-necked civilians are beginning to learn the facts of animal and vegetable life, the great burden will still be borne by the professional farmers and poultrymen.
From Time Magazine Archive
At Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Alphaeus M. Guhl and Don C. Warren, fowl scientists, sought the answer to this question, financially important to poultrymen.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the West Coast and in Hawaii there was a shortage of Japanese chicken-sex-determiners, who used to help U.S. poultrymen by deciding which chick was a pullet and which a cockerel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some visiting poultrymen expressed the opinion that corn is a better poultry food than commonly supposed.
From The Dollar Hen by Milo M. (Milo Milton) Hastings
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