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prettygoodwordpoult (POHLT) - n., a young fowl.
In particular, a young game bird such as turkey, grouse, pheasant, and so on, but often specifically a young turkey. From Middle English form pult, when it also meant young chicken, shortened from Anglo-Norman pulet/polet, from Old French poulet, young fowl, diminutive of poule/polle, hen, from Latin pulla -- making it a doublet of both pullet and poultry.
---L.
In particular, a young game bird such as turkey, grouse, pheasant, and so on, but often specifically a young turkey. From Middle English form pult, when it also meant young chicken, shortened from Anglo-Norman pulet/polet, from Old French poulet, young fowl, diminutive of poule/polle, hen, from Latin pulla -- making it a doublet of both pullet and poultry.
---L.
