| 单词 | brooding-room |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbrooding-room General attributive (in sense 1), as in brooding-place, brooding-pouch, brooding-room. ΘΚΠ 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 1673 J. Milton Psalm LXXXIV in Poems (new ed.) 154 The Swallow there..Hath built her brooding nest. 1852 Home Circle Apr. 155 ‘Brooding-places’..places selected by various sea-fowls, where they in common build their nests, lay their eggs, and bring up their young. 1884 Roe in Harper's Mag. May 930/2 The box was placed on a ..shelf in the brooding-room. < as lemmas |
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