pullen
nounEtymology From Middle English poleyn, from Old French polain (modern French poulain), from Late Latin pullāmen; compare pullet.
1
Obsolete domestic fowl; poultry
- The palsie plagues my pulses when I prigg yoͬ: piggs or pullen your culuers take, or matchles make your Chanticleare or sullenc. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665)
2
Obsolete the meat from a domestic fowl
3
Obsolete the young of a bird, or, figuratively, human children