单词 | brooder |
释义 | broodern. 1. One who broods over things. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > family unit > [noun] > female > parent > that broods brooder1599 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1599 |
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