barnyard fowl
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The New York Mets — after reliever Frank Francisco called the rival Yankees "chickens" — have brought in a live barnyard fowl as a clubhouse pet, so now it's time to give it a name.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 25, 2012
The Secretary of State lisps, and therefore says "Jesus Kwyst!," report Davis & Lindley, whose admiration for Cordell Hull's profanity and cracker-box yarns about mules, shirttails and barnyard fowl is right in the Washington groove.
From Time Magazine Archive
Red jungle fowl from India passed Royal muster as "a species believed to be direct descendants of the ancestors of all barnyard fowl."
From Time Magazine Archive
But it was clear last week that, though the aviation industry might unite in a chorus of protest, its component parts were ready to scramble like barnyard fowl for airmail business.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of all the birds which have been domesticated, our common barnyard fowl has been by far the most useful to man.
From Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization by Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate
