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ˈpʊl ɪtpul·let

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. fryer, frier, pulletnoun

    flesh of a medium-sized young chicken suitable for frying

  2. pulletnoun

    young hen usually less than a year old

Wiktionary

  1. pulletnoun

    A young hen, especially one less than a year old.

  2. pulletnoun

    A spineless person; a coward.

  3. Etymology: From pullet, poulet; polette, from poule.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Pulletnoun

    A young hen.

    Etymology: poulet, Fr.

    Brew me a pottle of sack finely.
    —— With eggs, Sir?
    —— Simple of itself; I’ll no pullet sperm in my brewage. Sha.

    I felt a hard tumour on the right side, the bigness of a pullet ’s egg. Richard Wiseman, Surgery.

    They died not because the pullets would not feed, but because the devil foresaw their death, he contrived that abstinence in them. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.

Wikipedia

  1. Pullet

    The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a domesticated junglefowl species, with attributes of wild species such as the grey and the Ceylon junglefowl that are originally from Southeastern Asia. Rooster or cock is a term for an adult male bird, and a younger male may be called a cockerel. A male that has been castrated is a capon. An adult female bird is called a hen and a sexually immature female is called a pullet. Humans now keep chickens primarily as a source of food (consuming both their meat and eggs) and as pets. Traditionally they were also bred for cockfighting, which is still practiced in some places. The chicken domesticated for its meat are Broilers and for its eggs are Layers. Chickens are one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, with a total population of 23.7 billion as of 2018, up from more than 19 billion in 2011. There are more chickens in the world than any other bird. There are numerous cultural references to chickens – in myth, folklore and religion, and in language and literature.Genetic studies have pointed to multiple maternal origin theories of within South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia, but the clade found in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa originated from the Indian subcontinent. From ancient India, the chicken spread to the Eastern Mediterranean. They appear in Egypt in the mid-15th century BC, with the "bird that gives birth every day" having come from the land between Syria and Shinar, Babylonia, according to the annals of Thutmose III. They are known in Greece from the 5th century BC.

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  1. pullet

    A pullet is a young, female chicken that is less than one year old and has not yet started laying eggs.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Pulletnoun

    a young hen, or female of the domestic fowl

  2. Etymology: [OE. polete, OF. polete, F. poulette, dim. of poule a hen, fr. L. pullus a young animal, a young fowl. See Foal, and cf. Poult, Poultry, Pool stake.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Pullet

    pōōl′et, n. a young hen.—n. Pull′et-sperm (Shak.), the treadle or chalaza of an egg. [Fr. poulette, dim. of poule, a hen—Low L. pulla, a hen, fem. of L. pullus, a young animal.]

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of pullet in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of pullet in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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