henroost

Therefore Ichabod leaves the house "with the air of one who had been sacking a henroost, rather than a fair lady's heart."

Ichabod Henroost complains of a gadding wife.

Tin works in the valley of the O Brook were first recorded in 1240, and the Henroost or Hexworthy Mine did not close until 1919.

O'MADDEN BURKE: Free fox in a free henroost.

Arrived at the henroost (your neighbor's, not your own), you light a match and hold it under first one and then another pullet's nose until they are willing to go into that bag without making any trouble about it.

Arrived at the tree, or fence, or other henroost (your own if you are an idiot), you warm the end of your plank in your friend's fire vessel, and then raise it aloft and ease it up gently against a slumbering chicken's foot.