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pul⋅let

  [pool-it]
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–noun
a young hen, less than one year old.
Origin:
1325–75; ME polet < MF poulet, dim. of poul cock < L pullus chicken, young of an animal; akin to foal
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pul·let   (pŏŏl'ĭt)   
n.  A young domestic hen, usually one that is less than one year old.

[Middle English pulet, from Old French polet, diminutive of poul, cock, and poule, hen, both from Latin pullus, young fowl, young animal, chicken; see pau-1 in Indo-European roots.]
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pullet 
1362, "young fowl," from Anglo-Fr. pullet, O.Fr. poulette, dim. of poule "hen," from V.L. *pulla, fem. of L. pullus "young animal, young fowl." Technically, a young hen from the time she begins to lay until the first molt.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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