Definition of "pullet"

They died not because the Pullets would not feed: but because the Devil foresaw their death, he contrived that abstinence in them.

1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.11

The dinner-hour being arrived, Black George carried her up a pullet, the squire himself [...] attending the door.

1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 588

he recommended that the patient [...] should be fed with chicken broth, and suggested that as all the poultry had gone to roost, Maggie would find a fat young pullet an easy capture.

1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 187

The writer complained that a fox had been the night before and killed three more of his pullets […].

1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 195