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.
conduit. noun. 1  A pipe or channel for conveying fluids, such as water. 2  A tube or duct for enclosing electric wires or cable. 3  A means by which something is transmitted: an arms dealer who served as a conduit for intelligence data. 4  Archaic A fountain.