hencoop

[ hen-koop, -koop ]

noun

1. a large cage or coop for housing poultry.

hencoop

/ ˈhɛnˌkuːp /

noun

1. a cage for poultry

Word History and Origins

Origin of hencoop¹

First recorded in 1690–1700; hen + coop

Example Sentences

And young Benjamin, confirmed by a nod from his father, departed for the mysteriously feminine hencoop.

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From its leafy crest the magpie looks down, meditating another raid upon the hencoop.

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Suddenly, just as Jeffreys was about to drive on, Helen uttered a scream, and pointed to a drifting hencoop.

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It had some fifteen or twenty thatched cottages, each with its vegetable garden and its beehives, its hencoop and its cowshed.

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"Verily, I ache all over," returned the new acquaintance under the hencoop.

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