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black game

British  

noun

  1. another name for black grouse

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Dressed in their black game jersies, they laughed and teased one another like privileged children of royalty.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

In that black game I won, I won!

From The Haunted Hour An Anthology by Widdemer, Margaret

And I daresay good shooting there too, with black game and such like.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 23, 1892 by Various

A tenant may now claim compensation for damage to crops by deer, pheasants, partridges, grouse, and black game.

From A Short History of English Agriculture by Curtler, W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts)

I remember once, on such a day, taking a noble sportsman who was very keen to shoot a blackcock, up to some black game sitting on a thorn hedge.

From The Confessions of a Poacher by Anonymous

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