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pullet
/ˈpʊlɪt/
noun 3
Collocations
3ADJ.
easy, fat, young
PULLET + NOUN
himself, squire
PREP.
up
Definitions
noun
1
A young hen, especially one less than a year old.
They died not because the Pullets would not feed: but because the Devil foresaw their death, he contrived that abstinence in them.
The dinner-hour being arrived, Black George carried her up a pullet, the squire himself [...] attending the door.
2
A spineless person; a coward.
3
A girl or young woman.
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They died not because the Pullets would not feed: but because the Devil foresaw their death, he contrived that abstinence in them.
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The dinner-hour being arrived, Black George carried her up a pullet, the squire himself [...] attending the door.
Wiktionary03
he recommended that the patient [...] should be fed with chicken broth, and suggested that as all the poultry had gone to roost, Maggie would find a fat young pullet an easy capture.
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