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hatchery|ˈhætʃərɪ| [f. hatch v.1 + -ery.] A hatching establishment; spec. one for hatching the ova of fish by artificial means. Also fig.
1880Times 17 Sept. 4/2 Means of introducing each year numbers of young fry from ‘hatcheries’. 1884Harper's Mag. Aug. 481/1 New trout and salmon hatchery opened at Linlithgow. 1885Times 18 Sept. 3 The Government may..see the importance..of fish hatcheries. 1932A. Huxley Brave New World i. 1 Central London hatchery and conditioning centre. 1932M. A. Jull Poultry Breeding xi. 347 Sanitary conditions at hatcheries must be approved by the hatchery inspector. Only eggs from approved hatchery flocks may be incubated. 1942D. Mitrany in Agenda I. 305 The T.V.A. is itself a hatchery of public enterprise. 1952Oxf. Jun. Encycl. VI. 360/2 Some poultry-farmers do not hatch eggs from their own birds but buy day-old chicks from ‘hatcheries’, which are places that do nothing but incubate eggs on a very large scale. |