Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The male black grouse. See
blackcock .
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Examples
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Fergus, all the while, with his myrmidons, striding stoutly by his side, or diverging to get a shot at a roe or a heath-cock.
Waverley 2004
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The deer and the heath-cock, the curd from the pen,
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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The STRANGER is in Bavarian alpine kit: short jacket of rough material, knickers, heavy boots and alpenstock, green hat with heath-cock feather.
The Road to Damascus August Strindberg 1880
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The bustard fed in the vast nut forests, the capercailzie was proud upon the moors, where the heath-cock was as jaunty, and the willow grouse and partridge were wise in covert to avoid the hungry snowy owl.
The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man Stanley Waterloo 1879
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And we have not tamed a single animal since biblical times, when all our animals were already domesticated; but the reindeer, the stag, the partridge, the heath-cock, all remain wild.
On the Significance of Science and Art Leo Tolstoy 1869
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And we have not tamed a single animal since biblical times, when all our animals were already domesticated; but the reindeer, the stag, the partridge, the heath-cock, all remain wild.
What to Do? Leo Tolstoy 1869
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When the door had closed upon her, Luigi resumed his station near it, warily casting his glances along the house-fronts, and moving his springy little legs like a heath-cock alert.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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When the door had closed upon her, Luigi resumed his station near it, warily casting his glances along the house-fronts, and moving his springy little legs like a heath-cock alert.
Vittoria — Complete George Meredith 1868
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When the door had closed upon her, Luigi resumed his station near it, warily casting his glances along the house-fronts, and moving his springy little legs like a heath-cock alert.
Vittoria — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868
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The pheasant and the heath-cock (the latter a black species spotted with white) are found in the woods near Failyun.
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