pultrie

Middle English

Alternative forms

• pultrye, pultre, pulterye, pultry, pultery

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French pouleterie; equivalent to pulet +‎ -erie or pulter +‎ -ie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpult(ə)riː(ə)/

Noun

pultrie (uncountable)

1. Poultry (chickens, geese, or similar birds kept for their products)
2. A location for the marketing and retail of domesticated fowl or poultry.
3. The portion of a noble estate dedicated to managing poultry.
4. (rare) A chicken coop or analogous structure; a place where poultry is kept.

Descendants

• English: poultry
• Scots: pootry, poutrie

References

• “pultrīe (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-01-18.