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UK
/pˈʊlɪt/
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NOUN
- young hen usually less than a year old
- flesh of a medium-sized young chicken suitable for frying
How To Use pullet In A Sentence
- Potential difficulties were solved when he caused to be constructed for himself a fine, plump, hollow pullet out of papier mâché, the breast being composed of two lids.
- Mick Greenwood took the award for the best hen class while the prize for the best stag went to Jake Walford and the pullet class winner was Dewi Jones.
- After a breakfast of Portsoy kippers, free-range poached pullet eggs - both typical of the quality produce served at the Mountview - we met up with Kevin.
- It is he that makes the sinner see all the deformity and filthiness that is within; it is he that pulleth off all the sinner's rags, and makes him see his naked and wretched condition; it is he that shows us the blindness of the mind, the stubbornness of the will, the disorderedness of the affections, the searedness of the conscience, the plague of our hearts, and the sin of our natures, and therein the desperateness of our state. The Almost Christian Discovered; or, the False Professor Tried and Cast.
- In the Poultry section there were classes for a pair of pullets White Wyandotte hatched the previous year, cock and hen any breed and goose or gander any breed.
- The curious white ale, or lober agolwhich, within the memory of man, used to exist in Devonshire and Cornwall, but which, even half a century ago, I have vainly sought therewas, I believe, drunk quite new; but then it was not pure malt and not hopped at all, but had eggs (pulletsperm in the brewage) and other foreign bodies in it. Beer and Cider
- Fresh pullet eggs (White Leghorn Strain) were incubated to obtain the primitive streak stage of development.
- Indifference to long nail-sharp spikes did not of course guarantee that one returned with a pullet.
- It does not mean by this that a scrawny pullet is of more importance than family honor; it simply means that the man who steals a pullet is a cowardly thief, while the one who ignores the advances of a pretty woman is an incorrigible idiot. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.
- If I had been better organised and focussed, I would have bought some pullets.