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n. - One who deals in the meat and eggs of domesticated birds.

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Usage examples (31)
  • A lame one in his lofty tricks; he sleeps a-horseback, like a poulterer.
  • I have never been a farrier, though Joliet himself made me perforce a poulterer.
  • Go to doss with the poulterer, you understand, and shake up with the milch-mand.
  • The person implicated in the charge against Hoyle seems to have been a poulterer. cf.
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