[ noun ] a farm building for housing poultry <noun.artifact>
Henhouse \Hen"house`\, n.; pl. {Henhouses}. A house or shelter for fowls.
He may or may not be a fox in a henhouse.
Earlier this month the Foreign Ministry said U.S. diplomats will not be allowed to act as election observers. "To invite them would be the equivalent of asking the fox to guard the henhouse," it said.
"Banks need to realize that there is a fox in the henhouse," he declares.
In addition, the air in the henhouse is ionized, which makes the dust from feathers and feed settle quickly on the floor.
Led by their 82-year-old Mother Superior, six sisters locked themselves in their henhouse for three hours while a government veterinarian hammered on the door.