yard fowl
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Noun[edit]
yard fowl (plural yard fowl or yard fowls)
- Alternative form of yardfowl
- 1823, [Joseph-Philippe-François] Deleuze, “§ V. Collection of Birds.”, in History and Description of the Royal Museum of Natural History, […] Translated from the French […], Paris: Printed for A. Royer, […], by L[ouis-]T[oussaint] Cellot, […], →OCLC, pages 365–366:
- On the third and fourth shelves are the different races of domestic fowls, and near them several wild species from India and the Moluccas. It cannot yet be decided from which of them our common yard fowls have sprung.
- 1995 July, Pat Conroy, chapter 27, in Beach Music, New York, N.Y.: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, →ISBN; trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Dial Press, 2009, →ISBN, page 421:
- Then he dragged her and kicked her naked out into the yard before the eyes of the yard fowl and mule and two stricken, terrified children.
- 2002, David Omowale, A Season of Waiting, Nairobi, Kenya: East African Educational Publishers, →ISBN, page 11:
- Our mother kept a dozen chickens, two turkeys, a few ducks and a guinea fowl. They were our ‘yard fowls’. She had caused our father to build coops of wood, board and wire-netting for them. We kept the yard fowls cooped up during the planting season each year so they wouldn’t pick the leaves off the young corn.
- 2007 December 7, Eutille E. Duncan, chapter 1, in In a Fine Castle, Bloomington, Ind., Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 5:
- [D]ozens of persons were awaiting the boat in order to load huge hands of ‘green fig’, plantains and mafoubay, baskets of blue dasheen, ‘renter’ yam, yellow yam, cassava and sweet potatoes, parcels of finely ground farine, bags of wet sugar, cages of ‘yard fowl’, tightly tethered hogs, sheep and goats which would be taken to Trinidad to be bought by the Marketing Board and private traders that would be waiting at the docks in Port-of-Spain.