| 单词 | hatchery | 
| 释义 | hatcheryn.  A commercial establishment in which fish or poultry eggs are hatched in controlled conditions. Also figurative.fish-, lobster-, salmon hatchery: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > 			[noun]		 > hatchery salmon fishery1732 hatchery1857 fish-hatchery1885 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > poultry-keeping > 			[noun]		 > enclosure for poultry > laying house, hatchery, etc. rearing house1824 sitting room1850 hatchery1857 brooding-room1884 eggery1910 laying house1913 battery1931 1857    W. C. Milne Life in China  iv. i. 383  				The interior of the hatchery was necessarily gloomy and dingy... A hole was pierced through the wall, large enough to place an egg in. 1880    Times 17 Sept. 4/2  				Means of introducing each year numbers of young fry from ‘hatcheries’. 1932    M. A. Jull Poultry Breeding xi. 347  				Sanitary conditions at hatcheries must be approved by the hatchery inspector. Only eggs from approved hatchery flocks may be incubated. 1942    D. Mitrany in  Agenda 1 305  				The T.V.A. is itself a hatchery of public enterprise. 1979    Whig-Standard 		(Kingston, Ont.)	 3 May 33/4  				It came in..with a load of trout fingerlings picked up at the White Lake hatchery. 2008    Independent 19 Mar. (Property section) 10/5  				They've just ordered 300 more birds a week from the hatchery. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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