sexern.
/ˈsɛksə/, U.S. /ˈsɛksər/ A person employed (by a farm, factory, etc.) to determine the sex of chickens by anatomical examination.
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poultry keeper1745
poultry maid1798
poultry farmer1852
backyarder1922
sexer1933
sexor1940
1933 Poultry Rec. Dec. 178/1 The progressive Chick Sexing Propagate Association donated as a prize to the Grand Champion chick sexer of Japan a free trip to America.
1986 S. Hubbell Country Year (1987) 112 I picture the sexers sitting there in the hatcheries,..upending newly hatched chicks and sorting out the pullets from the cockerels.
2006 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 17 Dec. (Calif. section) b2 Hokoda took his team of sexers to scrutinize tens of thousands of cheeping yellow newborns in the glare of 200-watt light bulbs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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