poult

English

Alternative forms

powt

Etymology

From Middle English pult, a variant of pulet, polet, from Old French poulet (“young fowl”), diminutive of poule (“hen”), from Latin pulla. For the development of the stressed vowel, see poultry.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /pɒlt/, /pəʊlt/
Rhymes: -ɒlt, -əʊlt
(US) IPA^(key): /poʊlt/
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Noun

poult (plural poults)

A young bird, a chick; now especially, a young game bird (turkey, partridge, grouse etc.). [from 14th c.]
- 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview 2001, p. 82:
  ‘I even questioned,’ said he, ‘whether there will not be, in about a week's time, some nice turkey powts.’
- 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster 2014, p. 19:
  After an hour of fishing I saw a flock of turkeys on the opposite bank and shot one of the poults.

Derived terms

heath-poult

Related terms

poultry

Translations

young game bird

Bulgarian: пиле (bg) n (pile)
Finnish: -poika (fi)

Anagrams

Pluto, pluot, pluto, pluto-