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blackcock

[ blak-kok ]

noun

  1. the male of the black grouse.


blackcock

/ ˈblækˌkɒk /

noun

  1. the male of the black grouse Also calledheath cock Compare greyhen
“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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Word History and Origins

Origin of blackcock1

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; black, cock 1
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Example Sentences

The swelling heights were brown and bare, like those of Tweeddale; and there the blackcock may still, I believe, be found.

Their articulations are not so loud as the crow of the blackcock, the clamour of the peewit, or the call of the grouse.

The only sound beside that of running water is the cry of the grouse, the blackcock, or the peewit.

Or set him to stalk a blackcock, perched high of an Autumn morning on a dyke.

I'm thinking of having a go at the blackcock, honoured Natalya Stepanovna, after the harvest.

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