[
UK
/pˈʊlɪt/
]
NOUN
- young hen usually less than a year old
- flesh of a medium-sized young chicken suitable for frying
How To Use pullet In A Sentence
- The two yaller pullets have slipped you; the abigail mizzled to the funeral with your niece, and t'other dell must have smelt us, and hopped the twig. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times
- They are wonderful eggs, gloriously random, massive great things alongside tiny pullets' eggs, round ones, tall thin ones, brown, white, speckled.
- This lifting of the ban does not apply to point of lay pullets yet, said Norval.
- This historic chick, warm golden brown, with a short bill not yet black but pinkish orange, resembles a large downy pullet with no tail.
- Vell, I dudder peen a success as a coward und kept avay from dot pullet. Frank Merriwell's Chums
- For those of you who don't know, a pullet is a young hen, not even a year old. Archive 2007-08-01
- Even the furloughed convicts who boil down pine trees into turpentine in my vast forest have been receiving an extra pullet or two in their monthly rations.
- There are two main ways to acquire laying hens: as day-old chicks or as started pullets.
- Till they are four months old, the term chicken is applied to the young female; after that age they are called pullets, till they begin to lay, when they are called hens. The Book of Household Management
- The previous month, you have picked a free electric refrigerator, day before admitted an egg, second days hatched six pullets .