Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The male of the black grouse.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The male black-grouse or black-game; the heath-cock; a grouse, Tetrao tetrix, or Lyrurus tetrix, of the family Tetraonidæ, found in many parts of Europe.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The male of the European black grouse (
Tetrao tetrix , Linn.); -- so called by sportsmen. The female is calledgray hen . Seeheath grouse .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the male
black grouse
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun male black grouse
- noun male black grouse
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Examples
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Forest areas are characterized with blackcock (Lyrurus tetrix), and other forest birds (Dendrocopos major, Oriolus oriolus, Columba palumbus, Streptopelia turtur, Parus cyanus, Phoenicurus phoenicurus, Anthus trivialis) and others.
Kazakh upland 2008
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September 27, 2006, 9: 10 am small cock black cock says: small cock blackcock
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October 23, 2006, 2: 08 pm sucking black cock says: sucking blackcock n00stalgie
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October 23, 2006, 6: 20 pm big black cock says: big blackcock n00stalgie
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The sides of the Berg were full of quail and partridge and bush pheasant, and on the grassy plateau there was abundance of a bird not unlike our own blackcock, which the Dutch called korhaan.
Prester John 2005
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Across his shoulder hung a game-bag with a blackcock lying in it.
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I say, you have shot a blackcock, Yegor Vlassitch!
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I kept on imagining that red dogs were running round me, and you made them point at me, as if I were a blackcock.
Fathers and Sons 2003
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There are thirty yonder that would have shed their lifeblood for you -- thirty, from the child of a week to the auld wife of a hundred, that you have made homeless, that you have sent out to sleep with the fox and the blackcock.
Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Samuel Rutherford Crockett
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Brown's terrier Wasp was the means of his striking up an acquaintance with the sturdy farmer opposite, who, hearing that he had never seen a blackcock, invited him forthwith to Charlies-hope, the name of his farm, where he promised him he should both see blackcock, shoot blackcock, and eat blackcock.
Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Samuel Rutherford Crockett
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