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Definition of Hencoop
1. Noun. A farm building for housing poultry.
Definition of Hencoop
1. n. A coop or cage for hens.
Definition of Hencoop
1. Noun. a coop where hens are kept. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hencoop
1. a cage for hens [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hencoop
Literary usage of Hencoop
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Papers from Over the Water: A Series of Letters from Europe by Sinclair Tousey (1869)
"... Peddler—Paris—Queer Sign near a Cemetery—Public Respect to Passing
funerals—Lafayette's Grave—Elevated hencoop—Brick-Raising, etc. PARIS, October, 1867. ..."
2. Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America: During by John Davis (1803)
"Why, d—n his blood, he has got into a hencoop. He looks as fierce as a goose with
one eye. First-mate.—You steward ! Come out of the hencoop ! Mr. Adams. ..."
3. ABC Pathfinder Railway Guideby New England Railway Publishing Company, New-England Association of Railroad Superintendents, A. E. Newton, George K. Snow, C. H. Bradlee, George S. Chase, N. E. Weeks by New England Railway Publishing Company, New-England Association of Railroad Superintendents, A. E. Newton, George K. Snow, C. H. Bradlee, George S. Chase, N. E. Weeks (1907)
"I left the bathroom gas turned on, The bill will bankrupt me, But we have spent
the summer months At hencoop-by-the-Sea. The cat is dead—we locked her in ..."
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