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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PULL'ET, n. [L. pullus; Gr. coinciding with Eng.foal.]
A young hen or female of the gallinaceous kind of fowls.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: flesh of a medium-sized young chicken suitable for frying [syn: fryer, frier, pullet]
2: young hen usually less than a year old

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English polet, from Anglo-French pullet young bird, chicken, diminutive of pulle, poule young animal, from Late Latin pullus, from Latin, young animal, chicken, sprout — more at foal Date: 14th century a young hen; specifically a hen of the domestic chicken less than a year old

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a young hen, esp. one less than one year old. Etymology: ME f. OF poulet dimin. of poule ult. fem. of L pullus chicken

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pullet Pul"let, n. [OE. polete, OF. polete, F. poulette, dim. of poule a hen, fr. L. pullus a young animal, a young fowl. See Foal, and cf. Poult, Poultry, Pool stake.] A young hen, or female of the domestic fowl. Pullet sperm, the treadle of an egg. [Obs.] --Shak.

Moby Thesaurus

Bantam, banty, barn-door fowl, barnyard fowl, biddy, birdling, broiler, brooder, broody hen, calf, capon, catling, chanticleer, chick, chickabiddy, chicken, chickling, chicky, cock, cockerel, colt, cub, dogie, domestic fowl, drake, duck, duckling, dunghill fowl, fawn, fledgling, foal, fowl, fryer, game fowl, gander, gobbler, goose, gosling, guinea cock, guinea fowl, guinea hen, hen, hen turkey, kid, kit, kitten, lamb, lambkin, litter, nest, nestling, partlet, piglet, pigling, polliwog, poulard, poult, poultry, pup, puppy, roaster, rooster, setting hen, shoat, spring chicken, stewing chicken, tadpole, tom, tom turkey, turkey, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock, weaner, whelp, yeanling