Definitions for brooder

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brooder brood·er

Spelling: [broo-der]

IPA: /ˈbru dər/

Brooder is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 91 anagrams from letters in brooder (bdeoorr).

Definitions for brooder

noun

1. a device or structure for the rearing of young chickens or other birds.
2. a person or animal that broods.
3. a number of young produced or hatched at one time; a family of offspring or young.
4. a breed, species, group, or kind:

adjective

1. kept for breeding:

Verb phrases

1. brood above/over, to cover, loom, or seem to fill the atmosphere or scene:

verb (used with object)

1. to sit upon (eggs) to hatch, as a bird; incubate.
2. (of a bird) to warm, protect, or cover (young) with the wings or body.
3. to think or worry persistently or moodily about; ponder:

verb (used without object)

1. to sit upon eggs to be hatched, as a bird.
2. to dwell on a subject or to meditate with morbid persistence (usually followed by over or on).

Origin of brooder

First recorded in 1590-1600; brood + -er¹

Examples for brooder

I can get a first-rate one for forty dollars, and I can buy one 'brooder.'

For convenience this house will be spoken of as brooder house No. 1.

It may be due to improper feeding, or to too high or low temperature in the brooder.

On the south side of this walk our brooder boxes are arranged.

But woman as a human incubator and brooder is an 170 obsolete machine.

For this purpose any brooder utilized for chicks or ducks can be used for goslings.

Next to the walk, and parallel with it, the brooder box should run.

"I opine we've got a brooder with us in the carriage behind," said Badger, in a low tone.

You may mother chickens in a brooder, but you must mother children in your arms.

We are all alike and yet all different; each of us is a wanderer, a brooder, a seeker.