poultryman
Americannoun
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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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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
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.
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Had Professor Gowell's successor been a practical poultryman, it is my candid opinion that the public would have been given a radically different explanation of the results.
From The Dollar Hen by Hastings, Milo M. (Milo Milton)
In the remainder of the volume we will consider the poultryman as an egg farmer.
From The Dollar Hen by Hastings, Milo M. (Milo Milton)
Nearly a million Eastern dairymen and poultrymen anxiously peered into their feed bins.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such drugs are now a bit too costly for widespread use by poultrymen, notes Beach, but a large demand would cut the cost to a practical level.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
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Specially well off are dairymen, beefmen, poultrymen, hogmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Southern poultrymen who give reasonable attention to their stock, find that, while this disease is a source of some annoyance, the losses are not severe and that it may be readily controlled.
From The Dollar Hen by Hastings, Milo M. (Milo Milton)
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