hen house

collocation in English

meaningsofhenandhouse

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hen
noun[C]
uk
/hen/us
/hen/
an adult female chicken, often kept for ...
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house
noun
uk
/haʊs/us
/haʊs/
a building that people, usually one family, ...
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(Definition ofhenandhousefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofhen house

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Why else would they ask the foxes to inspect thehenhouse?
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That could go on all week, and foxes would still be visiting myhenhouse.
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When this is found, the whole of the unit—whether it is ahenhouseor a whole flock—must go.
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Take a big rambling house; the licence covers the whole of the establishment fromhenhouseto the best bedroom, but it prescribes the number of beds for patients.
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An old married couple, 75 years old, had to live in an oldhenhousethey kept some hens in, and are living there at present.
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Thehenhouseand the pigsty have been renovated and made fit to live in.
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South of this grouping is a set of outbuildings, including a second stable, cown barn, carriage barn, equipment shed, andhenhouse.
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The contributing buildings and structures include a garage, barn,henhouse, tennis court, guest cottage, ice house, and well.
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The site consists of an old-fashioned farmhouse and eleven outbuildings, including a hog house, an equipment shed, ahenhouse, and a windmill, among others.
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Other contributing structures include a granary, a garage, outhouses and ahenhouse.
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I always felt like a poor chicken in ahenhouse.
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Scheel, an animal lover, who was widely regarded as being eccentric, kept ahenhousein the yard and sold eggs to her neighbours.
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Other outbuildings include a chicken/henhousebuilt about 1918, a dibby house and pump house built in the 1940s, and several others built in the 1950s.
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My experience some years ago at one hospital, which is now demolished, was that we had nurses living in converted hen houses!
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He had hen houses built to supply the ranch with chickens and eggs.
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Poor sanitation and crowded hen houses have contributed to these problems.
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