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单词 brooder
释义

broodern.

Brit. /ˈbruːdə/, U.S. /ˈbrudər/
Etymology: < brood v. + -er suffix1.
1. One who broods over things.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > dejected or gloomy person > one who contemplates moodily
brooder1869
1869 Daily 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.
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the world > animals > family unit > [noun] > female > parent > that broods
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1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 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.
1854 Poultry Chron. 1 153 An anxious Brooder.
3. An apparatus for the artificial rearing of young chickens and other birds. Also attributive. Originally U.S.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > [noun] > incubator or brooder
furnacec1400
brood-oven1737
eccaleobion1839
hatcher1856
incubator1857
brooder1880
brood-chamber1888
1880 H. Tomlinson Artificial Incubation vii. 32 [Chickens] may..be transferred to an artificial mother, or brooder as the Yankees call it.
1896 J. Rankin Incubator & its Use 58 The chicks..are then ready for the brooder and food.
1901 Westm. Gaz. 10 Oct. 4/1 The incubators and the accompanying ‘brooders’.
1935 W. H. Auden & C. Isherwood Dog beneath Skin i. 19 The brooder's really excellent. I rear now 98 per cent.
1945 B. Macdonald Egg & I (1946) 44 The brooder house was finished and the seven hundred and fifty yeeping chicks and the brooder were installed.
1959 Times 9 Mar. 19/4 A new heat storage chick brooder..has been developed.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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