fowl-run

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fowl-run (plural fowl-runs)

  1. An enclosure for domesticated chickens that has enough space to let them to walk about.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 60:
      "Poultry farm. Can't miss it - got fowl-runs and a green-painted pigeon-house on posts."