Brooder house. Written By: Brooder house, in agriculture, heated enclosure to provide shelter for young livestock and poultry. Chick brooders, also called broiler houses, are typically wood-framed, wood-floored, movable structures heated by electric or oil-fired stoves and built on skids. The chicks are housed until they are about six weeks old, when they no longer need heat.
Conceit is a literary and rhetorical term for an elaborate or strained figure of speech, usually a metaphor or simile. Also called a strained metaphor or radical metaphor.
Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: a conceit is a poetic idea, usually a metaphor. A metaphysical conceit is a particular type of poetic metaphor of the sort developed by the so-called metaphysical poets -- a group of 17th century British poets, including John Donne, who challenged many lyrical conventions (e.g., imagery, meter)