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/pɒlt/ · noun
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.’
And, besides, she [the old grouse's wife] was the mother of a family, and had seven little poults to wash and feed every day; […]
After an hour of fishing I saw a flock of turkeys on the opposite bank and shot one of the poults.
Use poult when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Poult means A young bird, a chick; now especially, a young game bird (turkey, partridge, grouse etc.)..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
‘I even questioned,’ said he, ‘whether there will not be, in about a week's time, some nice turkey powts.’
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