corbie
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of corbie
1150–1200; Middle English corbin < Old French < Latin corvīnus corvine
Example Sentences
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"Do you mind the day yer honor shot the corbie at the Tegern See?"
From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) by Charles James Lever
"And yesterday, workin' my stockin', And you wi' the sheep on the hill, A muckle black corbie sat croakin'; I kend it foreboded some ill."
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
But when the root of the aik decays, And the mistletoe dwines on its withered breast, The grass shall grow on Errol’s hearthstane, And the corbie roup in the falcon’s nest.
From The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer
As I went I heard the grey crow croak and the muckle corbie cry "Glonk," somewhere over by the Slock of the Hooden.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
They wad spare the bairn, and may think you too likely a lad to hang on the walls like a split corbie on the woodsman’s lodge.’
From A Modern Telemachus by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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