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- noun Alternative form of
killdeer .
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Examples
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When, later, woodcock seek its margins, gray snipe, kill-deer, mud-hens, and plovers its narrow fens, the scythe will rest in the half-mown field while its wielder "takes a crack at 'em."
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Indeed, I learned that the young patroon himself had gone to Heldeberg to arm his tenantry, and I knew that when Stephen Van Rensselaer took alarm it was not at the idle whistling of a kill-deer plover.
The Reckoning 1899
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Lee, the Jersey kill-deer, I've finished him, you rascal; you'll never see him more.
Sheppard Lee 1836
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Farewell, then, you poor miserable Sheppard Lee! you ragamuffin! you poor wretched shote! you half-starved old sand-field Jersey kill-deer! you vagabond! you beggar! you Dicky Dout, with the wrong place in your upper story! you are now a gentleman and a man of substance, and a happy dog into the bargain.
Sheppard Lee 1836
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“The devil take the fence, and that Jersey kill-deer that keeps it in such bad order!”
Sheppard Lee 1836
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My boyfriend/partner took Maddie and Marlee out for a closer inspection of the kill-deer nest at my house.
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Later, Maddie was telling Grandma about the miracle she had seen and explained about the baby kill-deer; and there was still going to be 3 more miracles that night!
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I already had marked a kill-deer nest, but today when I was planning to go around it, I noticed it was gone.
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These are the same colors as the dry prairie earth and short late summer grasses of central Ontario in Canada, where I’d seen a kill-deer just a few weeks before.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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(the miracles are the kill-deer babies she had seen hatching).
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