Definition of "henwife" [henwife]

• A woman in charge of domestic fowl; sometimes used contemptuously about men. (noun)

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• "Winnie was considered chief "henwife" at the Parsonage."
• "This was a half-witted lad, of very small stature, who had a kind of charge of the poultry under the old henwife; for in a Scottish family of that day there was a wonderful substitution of labour."
• "So next morning early, the queen said to Anne, "Go, my dear, to the henwife in the glen, and ask her for some eggs.""