What does pullet mean?
Pullet means A young hen, especially one less than a year old..
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/ˈpʊlɪt/ · noun
A young hen, especially one less than a year old..
They died not because the Pullets would not feed: but because the Devil foresaw their death, he contrived that abstinence in them.
The dinner-hour being arrived, Black George carried her up a pullet, the squire himself [...] attending the door.
he recommended that the patient [...] should be fed with chicken broth, and suggested that as all the poultry had gone to roost, Maggie would find a fat young pullet an easy capture.
The writer complained that a fox had been the night before and killed three more of his pullets […].
“Mrs. Boast can’t have got all these from one hatching,” [Ma] said. “I do believe there’s not more than two cockerels among them.” “The Boasts have got such a head-start with chickens, likely they’re planning to eat friers this summer,” said Pa. “It may be she took a few cockerels out of this flock, looking on them as meat.” “Yes, and replaced them with pullets that will be layers,” Ma guessed. “It would be Mrs. Boast all over. A more generous woman never lived.”
Use pullet when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pullet means A young hen, especially one less than a year old..
Common synonyms include fryer, frier.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
They died not because the Pullets would not feed: but because the Devil foresaw their death, he contrived that abstinence in them.
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