chicken factoryn.
/ˈtʃɪk(ᵻ)n ˌfakt(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈtʃɪkən ˌfækt(ə)ri/ 1. A building where chickens are hatched in temperature-controlled conditions in large numbers; (in later use) spec. one where the chickens are confined for the duration of their lives and reared using factory farming methods.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > factory > [noun] > type of
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1852 G. Dodd Fire & Light 14 in Curiosities of Industry The first successful application [of a building warmed with hot water] on a large scale was at a hatching-room—a chicken factory, as it may be termed—in 1776.
1875 Owyhee Daily Avalanche (Ruby City, Idaho) 7 Apr. 2/2 A ‘chicken factory’ has been established there by means of which eggs are hatched by the hundred dozen.
1988 W. Hamilton Lap of Luxury iii. v. 277 ‘Free-range’ means they're not raised in those horrible chicken factories, so you get this real taste.
2018 Targeted News Service (Nexis) 3 Apr. PETA—whose motto reads..‘animals are not ours to eat’—notes that a chicken factory can produce more than 3,000 pounds of manure every day.
2. A building where chickens are slaughtered and processed for food.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > [noun] > abattoir
slaughterhousec1374
slaughter-yard1688
abattoir1809
the Yards1865
saladero1870
freezing works1889
chicken factory1893
1893 8th Ann. Rep. State Board Health Kansas 1892 137 A chicken slaughter-house, called by the natives ‘chicken factory’, is located near the center of the city.
1961 Times 12 May 23/7 Chicken factory.—A £350,000 process factory is being built..for the Buxted Chicken Co. at Boreham, Essex. The new factory will treble production..of table poultry.
2005 Independent on Sunday 27 Nov. (ABC Mag.) 21/1 For his first job, as a student earning holiday money in a chicken factory, Christopher Meyer was handed a gutting-knife.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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