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Definition of Henhouses
1. henhouse [n] - See also: henhouse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Henhouses
Literary usage of Henhouses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Second Book of Composition for High Schools by Thomas Henry Briggs, Isabel McKinney (1919)
"Two henhouses stood in one corner, and in the summer the motherly speckled hens
... Near the henhouses were the wagon shed and piles of wood neatly corded. ..."
2. Annual Report of the Commissioner and the Board of Agriculture and Immigration by Dept. of Agriculture and Immigration, Virginia (1904)
"We have frequently asserted that a farmer having the ordinary outbuildings, which
can be cheaply transformed into comfortable henhouses, can add from $500 ..."
3. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1907)
"As soon as fall weather breaks and the birds are confined more to the henhouses,
plenty of straw is kept on the floor of the henhouses, ..."
4. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1902)
"Rude henhouses were constructed, made low to the ground, with a few poles put up
inside for perches. The cracks were chinked all around to keep out the wild ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1826)
"... me! what a weel-faur'd fallow, wi' the red head, to be fund guilty of stealing
folk's henhouses !"— And anither ane said, " Hech, airs! what a bonny ..."
6. A Dictionary of Similes by Frank Jenners Wilstach (1916)
"Teeth like the tusks of jinni who frightened poultry in henhouses. — IBID.
Teeth Like pearls a merchant picks to make a string. — EDWIN ARNOLD. ..."
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