poult

• powt

From Middle English pult, a variant of pulet, polet, from Old French poulet (“young fowl”), diminutive of poule (“hen”), from Latin pulla. For the development of the stressed vowel, see poultry. Doublet of pullet.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɒlt/, /pəʊlt/
• Rhymes: -ɒlt, -əʊlt
• (US) IPA^(key): /poʊlt/

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poult (plural poults)

1. A young bird, a chick; now especially, a young game bird (turkey, partridge, grouse etc.). [from 14th c.]
   • 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 82:

     ‘I even questioned,’ said he, ‘whether there will not be, in about a week's time, some nice turkey powts.’

   • 1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby:

     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; […]

   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 19:

     After an hour of fishing I saw a flock of turkeys on the opposite bank and shot one of the poults.

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• poultry

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