| 单词 | hen-keeping | 
| 释义 | > as lemmashen-keeping  c.   With participles, agent nouns, and verbal nouns, forming compounds in which hen expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in  hen farmer,  henkeeper,  hen-keeping,  hen-killer, etc.				 [Recorded earlier in surnames, as Adam le Henmongere   (1263, showing henmonger  : see note at monger n.1), Henr. Henbyter (1297, showing henbiter).]			 ΚΠ 1611    R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Adventurier  				An idle loitering rogue; a hedge-creeper, henne-killer, sheet-stealer. 1847    Prairie Farmer Feb. 64/2  				We shall hereafter insert one or two others, exhibiting some features which are left out in this, so as to supply the farmer and the hen fancier with sufficient light on the subject. 1849    Prairie Farmer May 162/1  				Some discussion as to this subject..has grown out of a statement made by us regarding the experience of Dr. Barstow and ourselves in hen keeping. 1900    Badminton Mag. May 617  				A stout hill fox he most undoubtedly was..but none the less, on the sworn testimony of all the farmers who were present, the most notorious old hen-killer in the country side. 1997    Daily Mirror 		(Nexis)	 29 Mar. 17  				Now hen farmer Amanda Fielder is demanding compensation from the RAF. 2012    Poultry World Feb. 24/1  				As a writer of several best-selling hen-keeping books, a columnist for the Sunday Telegraph and chairperson of the nearly 10,000-strong Henkeepers' Association, I use every means at my disposal to support those who keep poultry for pleasure. < as lemmas | 
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