Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
moorgame . - noun The ruffed grouse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A reddish-brown grouse (
Lagopus Scoticus ) of upland moors of Great Britain; the European ptarmigan, orred grouse , also called themoorgame . - noun The European heath grouse. See under
Heath .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
red grouse .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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“Is it the same Mr. Mowbray,” said Mr. Tyrrel, “who still holds the estate? — the old gentleman, you know, whom I had some dispute with” — — “About hunting moorfowl upon the Spring-well-head muirs?” said Meg.
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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From him I learned the story many years before he was either a publican, or a guide, except to moorfowl shooters. —
Rob Roy 2005
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Is an undying moorfowl, and He lives beyond the sky.
Collected Poems William Butler 2002
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Nearer at hand the rich reds and browns of the moorland softened into a tender and beautiful green on nearing the margins of the lakes; and these stretches of water were now as fair and bright as the sky above them, and were scarcely ruffled by the moorfowl moving out from the green rushes.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 Various
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The moorfowl does not cry there, the coney has no habitation.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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Indeed, it has been reported that when he was young he sometimes "leistered a kipper, and made a shift to shoot a moorfowl i 'the drift."
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 576, November 17, 1832 Various
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The only living things there were the wild birds, the moorfowl in the heather, hawks that built in the rock face, and pigeons that made their nest in hollow places.
Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset Arthur Christopher Benson 1893
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The only living things there were the wild birds, the moorfowl in the heather, hawks that built in the rock face, and pigeons that made their nest in hollow places.
The Isles of Sunset Arthur Christopher Benson 1893
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From him I learned the story many years before he was either a publican, or a guide, except to moorfowl shooters.
Rob Roy 1887
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There are black-cock in extraordinary abundance, moorfowl, plover and wild pigeons, which seemed to me to be the same as we have in pigeon-houses, in their state of nature.
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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