Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument producing a sound which resembles the cry of the female turkey, used as a decoy.
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Examples
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Drawing a turkey-call from his pocket, he gave the call of the wild turkey going to roost, as softly as a violinist tries his instrument to see if it is in tune.
The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore
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Every turkey-call might mean a lurking savage, every cracking twig might mean an approaching foe.
American Men of Action Stevenson, Burton E 1913
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Instantly I was on my feet, Uncle Kit showed me the direction to go, loaned me his turkey-call quill, which, by the way, he had been teaching me how to use as we rode the day before.
Thirty-One Years on the Plains and In the Mountains Drannan, William F 1899
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The best way to get a shot at a turkey is by a turkey-call.
In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk Hezekiah Butterworth 1872
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There is nothing that furnishes a perfect turkey-call except that bone.
The Mysterious Stranger Mark Twain 1872
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The hunter concealed himself and imitated the turkey-call by sucking the air through the leg-bone of a turkey which had previously answered
The Mysterious Stranger Mark Twain 1872
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Instantly I was on my feet, Uncle Kit showed me the direction to go, loaned me his turkey-call quill, which, by the way, he had been teaching me how to use as we rode the day before.
Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains, Or, the Last Voice from the Plains William F. Drannan 1872
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"Nancy stood still as soon as she found a hollow place in the timber, put up her hand -- _so_ -- and made a turkey-call -- _so_ -- and listened.
In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk Hezekiah Butterworth 1872
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