cackle

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“Demand is up, but we’ve not expanded for the last three years because we don’t have the work force,” said Jeff Smith, one of the owners of Cackle Hatchery in Missouri.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2023

Cackle, kak′l, n. the sound made by a hen or goose.—v.i. to make such a sound.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Cackle went the cracked old voices of the twenty-nine in a chorus of appreciative laughter, while the old heads bobbed at one another as if to say, "Won't he be an acquisition?"

From Old Lady Number 31 by Forsslund, Louise

They were bad enough, But what a deal of skimble-skamble stuff Will Mrs. FAWCETT's Middle-aged Ones talk When these eight hundred thousand hens o' the walk Cackle for Order, Purity, and Peace!!!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 5, 1891 by Various

And hens asleep on the perch, they say, Cackle sometimes in a startled way, As if they were dreaming a dream that mocks The lope and whiz of a fleeting fox!

From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Bierce, Ambrose