black game

British  

noun

1. another name for black grouse

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Example Sentences

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

You see, sir, as I said to Peter here, black game don’t seem in our way—didn’t I, Peter?”

From Dead Man's Land Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain blacks and whites by Wood, Stanley L.

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

By way of variety you are sometimes bidden to assist at a neighbouring "drive" for black game and roe.

From Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport by Greville, Beatrice Violet Graham

Both grouse and black game may frequently be brought within range by placing a dead or stuffed bird on a rock or a stone wall.

From The Confessions of a Poacher by Anonymous