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Coop vs Poultry - What's the difference?

coop | poultry |

As a noun coop

is a pen or enclosure for birds or coop can be .

As a verb coop

is to keep in a coop.

As a proper noun poultry is

a street in the city between cheapside and cornhill.

coop

English

(wikipedia coop)

Etymology 1

From (etyl)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A pen or enclosure for birds.
  • (slang) jail
  • A barrel or cask for liquor.
  • (Johnson)
  • (Scotland) A cart from boards; a tumbrel.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To keep in a coop.
  • To shut up or confine in a narrow space; to cramp.
  • * Dryden
  • The Trojans cooped within their walls so long.
  • * John Locke
  • The contempt of all other knowledge coops the understanding up within narrow bounds.
  • (obsolete) To work upon in the manner of a cooper.
  • * Holland
  • Shaken tubs be new cooped .
    Derived terms
    * coop up

    Etymology 2

    From , by shortening.

    poultry

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • domestic fowl (e.g. chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese) raised for food (either meat or eggs)
  • the meat from a domestic fowl