POULT

  

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POULT

Definition: POULT

POULT

Noun

1. A young chicken, partridge, grouse, or the like.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "POULT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Etymology: Poult \Poult\, noun. [Old French expression pulte, French poulet, diminutive of poule fowl. See Pullet.]. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definition: POULT

DomainDefinition

Industry

A plain-weave fabric woven from continuous-filament yarn with a rib in the weft direction. A good construction for a dress fabric was 200 ends per inch 75-denier acetate and 66 picks per inch of 200-denier acetate. Source: European Union. (references)

Literature

Poult a young turkey. Pullet, a young chicken. (Latin, pullus, the young of any animal, whence poultry, young domestic fowls; filly, a young horse. foal; French, poule; Italian, pollo, etc.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Poult

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Baby turkey (bird).

See also: Hen (female) Tom (male) Hokie (castrated male)

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Poult."

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Crosswords: POULT

English words defined with "POULT": Heath game, Heath grouse. (references)
Etymologies containing "POULT": Poulter, Poultry, Pullet. (references)
Non-English Usage: "POULT" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Portuguese (poult).

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Commercial Usage: POULT

DomainTitle

Books

  • Instead of Chicken, Instead of Turkey: A Poultryless "Poultry" Potpourri: Featuring Homestyle, Ethnic, and Exotic Alternatives to Traditional Poult (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: POULT

Expression using "POULT": heath poult. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "POULT": turkey-poult.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: POULT

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

poult

3

poult turkey

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: POULT

Language Translations for "POULT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

zogë (chick, chicken, pullet). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فروج صغير الديك الرومي. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

фазанче, пуйче (turkey-poult), пиленце (chickabiddy, chickling, chuck, ducky, lamb). (various references)

   

Czech

  

pulard. (various references)

   

Danish

  

poult de soir. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

poult de soie, poult, pluimvee (chickens, Domestic poulry, fowl, fowls, poultry), kalkoenskuiken (turkey chicken, young turkey). (various references)

   

French

  

volaille (poultry), oiseau de basse-cour (Domestic poulry, poultry), dindonneau. (various references)

   

German

  

Poult de soie, Truthuhnküken (turkey chicken, young turkey), junger Truthahn (turkey chicken, young turkey), junge Truthenne (turkey chicken, young turkey), Geflügel (birds, fowl, poultry), Federvieh (poultry). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

γαλόπουλο (turkey chicken, young turkey), γαλοπούλα νεαρή (turkey chicken, young turkey), νεαρός γάλος (turkey chicken, young turkey), ταφτάς (grosgrain, taffeta). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

csibe (chick, chicken). (various references)

   

Italian

  

pulcino (chick, chicks), poult de soie, pollame (fowl, poultry), tacchinetto (turkey chicken, young turkey). (various references)

   

Manx

  

eean (brat, cheeky child, chick, fowl, young of birds; juvenile, young; juvenile), earrag (pullet). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oultpay

   

Portuguese

  

poult, peru novo (turkey chicken, young turkey), frango (chicken, fowl, hen), aves domésticas (barn-door, poultry). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

pui de gãinã (peeper), pui de curcã. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

птенец (cheeper, chick, chicken, fledgling, nestling, squealer). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pilence (chick), ćure (turkey-poult). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pavipollo (twit). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kyckling (chick, chicken). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

piliç (babe, baby, chick, chicken, dish, pullet, spring chicken), palaz. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

курча (chick, chicken, chuck), крихітка (bittock, bud, chit, chitterling, dreg, dribblet, smidgen, tittle), пташеня (cheeper, chick, chicken, nestling, pout, squeaker, squealer). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

g tây, con g . (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: POULT

Derivations

Words beginning with "POULT": poulter, poulterer, poulterers, poulters, poultice, poulticed, poultices, poulticing, poultries, poultry, poultryman, poultrymen, poults. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: POULT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "l-o-p-t-u"

-1 letter: loup, lout, plot, pout, tolu.

-2 letters: lop, lot, opt, out, pol, pot, pul, put, top, tup, upo.

-3 letters: lo, op, to, up, ut.

 Words containing the letters "l-o-p-t-u"
 

+1 letter: pluton, potful, poults, putlog, topful, tupelo.

 

+2 letters: couplet, eelpout, gluepot, octuple, octuply, opulent, outleap, outplan, outplay, outplod, outplot, outpoll, outpull, outyelp, plutons, pollute, potfuls, potluck, poulter, poultry, poutful, pullout, putlogs, slipout, subplot, topfull, tupelos.

 

+3 letters: bullpout, copulate, couplets, eelpouts, gluepots, octupled, octuples, octuplet, octuplex, outleaps, outleapt, outplans, outplays, outplods, outplots, outpolls, outpulls, outsleep, outslept, outspell, outspelt, outyelps, patulous, petalous, pleuston, plutonic, polluted, polluter, pollutes, populate, populist, postlude, postural, potlucks, poulters, poultice, pullouts, pulmotor, pulsator, pulsojet, sculptor, slipouts, sportful, subplots, troupial, unpolite, unspoilt, uprootal.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: POULT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 4F 55 4C 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01001111 01010101 01001100 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#79 &#85 &#76 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 004F 0055 004C 0054

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5049554654

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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