The Sporting Dictionary, and Rural Repository, Volume 1 (of 2) / Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field

by William Taplin

BROOD

,—a word almost indiscriminately used for the young of any fowl. There is, however, a much nicer and more sporting-like distinction. To speak properly, we say, a brood of ducks, a clutch of chickens, a setting of gulls, a covey of partridges, and a nide of pheasants.