Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large-sized game-cock.
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Examples
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As for the main Sir Peter had meant to fight with his Flatbush birds, we tried a shake-bag, stags, which, though fairly matched and handled by past masters, billed and pecked and panted without a blow from wing or spur, till we understood that the heat had stunned them, and so gave up to wait for cooler sport.
The Reckoning 1899
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Quin) against the best shake-bag of the whole main.’
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