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单词 hen-run
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hen-run
b. As a modifier (in sense 1), designating structures and enclosures where hens are kept, as in hen-hutch, hen-loft, hen-run, etc.See also hen coop n., hencote n., henhouse n., hen pen n. at Compounds 3.Some of these compounds have parallel equivalents with chicken: see chicken coop n., chicken run n., etc.
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1581 S. Batman tr. K. Lykosthenes Doome 367 The house standeth in a Henne yarde agaynste the hotte Sunne ouer againste the vitayling house of the Hospitall.
1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. I2 Hauing no roome for his hen-loft, but the Testor of his bed.
1779–80 J. Roberts in E. Capell Notes & Var. Readings to Shakespeare II. iii. 90/1 His father stole the goose out of the hen-loft.
1853 J. W. Carlyle Let. 27 Dec. in Coll. Lett. T. Carlyle & J. W. Carlyle (1981) XXVIII. 358 It will surely be a comfortable reflection for you in coming home this time, that you will look out over a perfectly empty hencourt.
1876 Scribner's Monthly Apr. 813/2 The best places in which to look for Jacobean sideboards..are found to be the hen-yard.
1897 Westm. Gaz. 3 Aug. 2/1 Eulogistic accounts of his hen-run and his kitchen-garden.
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 2 Feb. 121/1 The breeders have been housed in the henyard previously used for layers.
2014 M. Atherton There & Back Again i. 6 The garden is wooden-fenced on one side, with a hen hutch in the middle of the lawn.
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