ALL meanings of brooder
brood·er
B b - noun brooder an enclosure or other structure, usually heated, used for rearing young chickens or other fowl 3
- noun brooder a person or thing that broods 3
- noun brooder a person or animal that broods 3
- noun brooder a heated shelter for raising young fowl 3
- noun brooder a number of young produced or hatched at one time; a family of offspring or young. 1
- noun brooder a breed, species, group, or kind: The museum exhibited a brood of monumental sculptures. 1
- verb with object brooder to sit upon (eggs) to hatch, as a bird; incubate. 1
- verb with object brooder (of a bird) to warm, protect, or cover (young) with the wings or body. 1
- verb with object brooder to think or worry persistently or moodily about; ponder: He brooded the problem. 1
- verb without object brooder to sit upon eggs to be hatched, as a bird. 1
- verb without object brooder to dwell on a subject or to meditate with morbid persistence (usually followed by over or on). 1
- adjective brooder kept for breeding: a brood hen. 1