hatcheryn.
/ˈhatʃ(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈhætʃəri/ A commercial establishment in which fish or poultry eggs are hatched in controlled conditions. Also figurative.fish-, lobster-, salmon hatchery: see the first element.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] > hatchery
salmon fishery1732
hatchery1857
fish-hatchery1885
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > poultry-keeping > [noun] > enclosure for poultry > laying house, hatchery, etc.
rearing house1824
sitting room1850
hatchery1857
brooding-room1884
eggery1910
laying house1913
battery1931
1857 W. C. Milne Life in China iv. i. 383 The interior of the hatchery was necessarily gloomy and dingy... A hole was pierced through the wall, large enough to place an egg in.
1880 Times 17 Sept. 4/2 Means of introducing each year numbers of young fry from ‘hatcheries’.
1932 M. 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.
1942 D. Mitrany in Agenda 1 305 The T.V.A. is itself a hatchery of public enterprise.
1979 Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ont.) 3 May 33/4 It came in..with a load of trout fingerlings picked up at the White Lake hatchery.
2008 Independent 19 Mar. (Property section) 10/5 They've just ordered 300 more birds a week from the hatchery.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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