| 单词 | hen-balk | 
| 释义 | > as lemmashen-balk   hen-balk  n. English regional (northern) and Scottish a rafter or beam in a henhouse, barn, etc., upon which hens may perch or roost; (also) a place where hens roost, a henhouse; cf. balk n.1 11. ΚΠ 1594    Inventory 2 Nov. in  R. W. Ambler et al.  Farmers & Fishermen 		(1987)	 97  				The horse crybb and heck and hen balks. 1691    J. Ray Catal. N. Country Words in  Coll. Eng. Words 		(ed. 2)	 135  				Hen-bawks, a Hen Roost, from the Bawks of which it consists. 1893    R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words  				Hen-baak, -balk, -boak, a hen roost. 1994    C. Upton et al.  Surv. Eng. Dial.: Dict. & Gram.  				Hen-baulk, a perch for hens. < as lemmas  | 
	
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