Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name in Jamaica of the crying-bird, carau, or limpkin, Aramus pictus.
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A clucking-hen with twelve chicks knows at once should one be missing, and seeks it even when it cannot utter a sound, and while all the rest of her brood are running about in such confusion that it would seem impossible to count them oneself.
Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals Henny Kindermann
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