| 单词 | rearing house |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrearing house rearing house n. a building in which young chickens are kept; (also) a building in which silkworms are reared. ΘΚΠ 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 1824 J. H. Barlow Hatching Poultry by Steam 15 The Rearing House is of the same size and dimensions as the Hatching House, in which Fowls are kept until they are three weeks or a month old. 1880 Amer. Naturalist 14 578 A disease which appeared in South France nearly thirty years ago and attacked the silk worms with much virulence, is also a case in point... This disease appeared in the rearing houses in great violence in 1854. 1948 L. Robinson Mod. Poultry Husb. xi. 227 When growing stock are first placed in arks or other types of range rearing-house, a temporary run of wire netting should be erected. 1991 Jrnl. Southern Afr. Stud. 17 549 Laborde..established a rearing house for silkworm with an annual output of 200 kilograms of raw silk. < as lemmas |
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