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chicken tractor

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.72 in modern English

Syllables
chick-en -trac-tor
IPA
27
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A movable enclosure in which chickens can scratch the ground for food, allowing them to be pasture-raised (benefiting from grass, insects, sunshine, and breathing space) and offering benefits to crop rotation systems (e.g., insect control, soil manuring).

Etymology

So called because it serves some functions of a tractor, such as weeding and fertilizing. Attestations from the 1970s exist, according to the metadata connected with snippet views in Google Book Search results.

Inflected Forms

chicken tractors (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

chicken coop chickenhouse hencoop henhouse

Questions

What does chicken tractor mean?
A movable enclosure in which chickens can scratch the ground for food, allowing them to be pasture-raised (benefiting from grass, insects, sunshine, and breathing space) and offering benefits to crop rotation systems (e.g., insect control, soil manuring).
Where does chicken tractor come from?
So called because it serves some functions of a tractor, such as weeding and fertilizing. Attestations from the 1970s exist, according to the metadata connected with snippet views in Google Book Search results.

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