Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having red wings, or red on the wings.
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Examples
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APHIS even uses caged red-winged blackbirds to decoy wild ones says Audubon magazine and "pre-baits" an area with unpoisoned food to get birds in the habit of eating.
Martha Rosenberg: Who Would Kill Blackbirds Intentionally? Martha Rosenberg 2012
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Chickadees, grey-crowned rosy-finches, ravens, bald eagles, goldeneyes and a few red-winged blackbirds, a pair of blue-winged teal and a solitary rough-legged hawk were livening up the wind.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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In a distant tree branch, a fiddler plays, while hovering above and embracing the newlyweds is the red-winged figure of Ida, their little daughter, born in 1916.
Elizabeth Abbott: Eternal Happiness In A Wedding Dress Elizabeth Abbott 2012
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Even amongst the most fervent red-winged elite, no one likes a wanna-be, especially one with a husband in tow that seems, well, less fully masculine than those heartland voters would want to see in a potential First Dude.
Shan Wells: Buh-Bye Pizza Guy Shan Wells 2011
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In a distant tree branch, a fiddler plays, while hovering above and embracing the newlyweds is the red-winged figure of Ida, their little daughter, born in 1916.
Elizabeth Abbott: Eternal Happiness In A Wedding Dress Elizabeth Abbott 2012
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The red-winged blackbirds divided up, the males at the feeders eating seeds, the females at the woodpecker picnic getting the suet as well as the seeds—building up strength for egg laying?
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Chickadees, grey-crowned rosy-finches, ravens, bald eagles, goldeneyes and a few red-winged blackbirds, a pair of blue-winged teal and a solitary rough-legged hawk were livening up the wind.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission issued separate news releases on the Dec. 29 fish kill and the New Year's Eve event in which red-winged blackbirds began raining down, evoking images of the apocalypse.
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And, as I knew they would, the red-winged blackbirds took over the bird feeder.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Even amongst the most fervent red-winged elite, no one likes a wanna-be, especially one with a husband in tow that seems, well, less fully masculine than those heartland voters would want to see in a potential First Dude.
Shan Wells: Buh-Bye Pizza Guy Shan Wells 2011
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