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Poult

//poʊlt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A young bird, a chick; now especially, a young game bird (turkey, partridge, grouse etc.).

    "‘I even questioned,’ said he, ‘whether there will not be, in about a week's time, some nice turkey powts.’"

Etymology

From Middle English pult, a variant of pulet, polet, from Old French poulet (“young fowl”), diminutive of poule (“hen”), from Latin pulla. For the development of the stressed vowel, see poultry. Doublet of pullet.

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