Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
graekle .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) See
grackle
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Archaic form of
grackle .
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Examples
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From the more limited demesne the crow and the grakle are generally excluded.
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He who doubts that civilized progress and industry is beneficial to birds, and promotes their comfort and multiplication, never saw the robin and the purple grakle following the plough on a summer's morning.
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Flocks of the purple grakle used to follow the plow and eat up the worms at a great rate.
Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird Virginia Sharpe Patterson 1877
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"You mentioned the industry of the grakle a moment ago," resumed the professor.
Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird Virginia Sharpe Patterson 1877
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They are a species of grakle, and are lively and intelligent birds, some of them possessing a power of imitating human speech equal to any of the parrot tribe.
A Boy's Voyage Round the World Samuel Smiles 1858
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