Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A male turkey.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who swallows in haste; a greedy eater; a gormandizer.
- noun A turkey-cock. Also called
gobble-cock and turkey-gobbler. - noun An automatic bucket the halves of which separate at the bottom when lowered and close when a strain is put upon the hoisting-chain, digging into the material to be loaded. When the strain is removed the weight of the load causes the bucket to open.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A turkey cock; a bubbling Jock.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun slang A
turkey . - noun One who
eats food veryquickly , withoutdecorum .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun male turkey
- noun a hasty eater who swallows large mouthfuls
Etymologies
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Examples
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I carry a hawk call, that can really light 'em up, and one morning in gobbler season there was a single Canada goose flying up the valley and calling, and a gobbler was answering it's calls, so I now carry a goose call as well.
Would a duck call or deer call work to get a turkey to shock gobble? 2010
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I carry a hawk call, that can really light 'em up, and one morning in gobbler season there was a single Canada goose flying up the valley and calling, and a gobbler was answering it's calls, so I now carry a goose call as well.
Would a duck call or deer call work to get a turkey to shock gobble? 2010
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Unless a gobbler is the absolute king of the woods he can be leery of other birds, and that includes your decoys.
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It seems the whole woods shake when a gobbler is gobbling just yards away.
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It seems the whole woods shake when a gobbler is gobbling just yards away.
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Practice your wood craft, 80 percent of killing a gobbler is knowing the woods you hunt and moving and setting up carefully.
I want to start spring turkey hunting and I dont know how to start out. 2009
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Practice your wood craft, 80 percent of killing a gobbler is knowing the woods you hunt and moving and setting up carefully.
I want to start spring turkey hunting and I dont know how to start out. 2009
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Calling in a gobbler is especially gratifying when you do it with a peg you've made.
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While turkey hunting on beaver island we heard and saw a nice gobbler from a distance.
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While turkey hunting on beaver island we heard and saw a nice gobbler from a distance.
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