| 单词 | hen-balk |
| 释义 | > as lemmashen-balk hen-balk n. English regional (northern) and Scottish a rafter or beam in a henhouse, barn, etc., upon which hens may perch or roost; (also) a place where hens roost, a henhouse; cf. balk n.1 11. ΚΠ 1594 Inventory 2 Nov. in R. W. Ambler et al. Farmers & Fishermen (1987) 97 The horse crybb and heck and hen balks. 1691 J. Ray Catal. N. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 135 Hen-bawks, a Hen Roost, from the Bawks of which it consists. 1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Hen-baak, -balk, -boak, a hen roost. 1994 C. Upton et al. Surv. Eng. Dial.: Dict. & Gram. Hen-baulk, a perch for hens. < as lemmas |
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