chookyard
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Noun
editchookyard (plural chookyards)
- (Australia, New Zealand) A chicken run.
- 2002, Susan Hawthorne, Wild Politics: Feminism, Globalisation, Bio/diversity, →ISBN, page 177:
- The chooks ran free in the paddock behind the chookyard, where the house cow also grazed.
- 2013, Yasar Duyal -, Paper Clips, →ISBN, page 141:
- I walked over to the chookyard, where my dad's voice had come from.
- 2018, The Outback: Anthology of Short Stories, →ISBN:
- Oblivious to the scorching heat and rising wind she turned her tear-stained face towards the pigsty and chookyard, setting off at yet another frenzied pace.