blackcock
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Etymology
Origin of blackcock
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at black, cock 1
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One evening in February, when Gabrielle was sitting in a dream over her turf fire, Considine came home from a day's blackcock shooting in the woods on the edge of the lake.
From The Tragic Bride by Young, Francis Brett
Our shooting, Arthur, consists of a heathery hillside inhabited by many rabbits, a few grouse—very wild, and an ancient blackcock called Algernon.
From The Setons by Douglas, O.
The grey dissolves into dawn, the dawn into light, and the first blackcock crows to his grey hen in the hollow.
From The Confessions of a Poacher by Anonymous
And the great days in autumn after grouse and blackcock.
From Border Ghost Stories by Pease, Howard
I was never quite at ease when I had knocked down my blackcock, and going to pick him up he cast back his dying eye with a look of reproach.
From St. Ronan's Well by Scott, Walter, Sir
One day they had been hawking, and when they let slip the falcons, Harald's falcon killed two blackcocks in one flight and three in another.
From Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
The General entered the forest, and there hazel-hens were whistling, blackcocks were holding their bragging matches, and hares were running.
From A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
Sweet lass, will ye gang wi' me, Where blackcocks crow, and plovers cry?
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles
"It is, indeed," she said, "a good morning's hunting to have got five blackcocks, but it was still better when in one morning a king of Norway took five kings and subdued all their kingdoms."
From Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
He was not at all certain that there were no more blackcocks in the county.
From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh
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