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.
What is Conceit? Definition and Examples. The concept of conceit is vital in [John] Donne's poetry, says Harold Bloom. A conceit is a concise and arresting metaphor, an implied comparison, which causes us to work hard to retrieve the multi-faceted meanings of individual words and images (John Donne, 1999). (Kean Collection/Getty Images)