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brooder|ˈbruːdə(r)| [f. brood v. + -er1.] 1. One who broods over things.
1869Daily News 5 June, Louis Napoleon is not alone a dreamer—he is a brooder. He has brooded two whole years over the possible result of the elections. 2. A hen, etc., that broods or hatches eggs.
1599T. M[oufet] Silkwormes 26 Now what are seedes and egges of wormes or foule, But recrements of pre-existing things..? Yea, from themselues corruption onely springs, Vnlesse by brooders heate..They changed be to belly, feete, or wings. 1854Poultry Chron. I. 153 An anxious Brooder. 3. An apparatus for the artificial rearing of young chickens and other birds. Also attrib. orig. U.S.
1880H. Tomlinson Artificial Incubation vii. 32 [Chickens] may..be transferred to an artificial mother, or brooder as the Yankees call it. 1935Auden & Isherwood Dog beneath Skin i. 19 The brooder's really excellent. I rear now 98 per cent. 1945B. MacDonald Egg & I (1946) 44 The brooder house was finished and the seven hundred and fifty yeeping chicks and the brooder were installed. 1959Times 9 Mar. 19/4 A new heat storage chick brooder..has been developed. |