dust-bath
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The nests should be in rows around the room, the feeding and water-troughs in the centre, with the dust-bath at one end.
From Natural and Artificial Duck Culture by Rankin, James
I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart On that disused and forgotten road That has no dust-bath now for the toad.
From A Boy's Will by Frost, Robert
Overhead the chicken-hawk is the only creature at work, and his shrill kite-like call sends the gaping chickens from the dust-bath in haste to their mothers.
From Letters of Travel (1892-1913) by Kipling, Rudyard
When her brood begins to lag and pine, the wild mother knows, and leading them to some old ant-hill, she gives them a sousing dust-bath.
From Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes by Clippinger, Erle Elsworth
Lady farm-help, being shown her new duties, notices fowls having dust-bath.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 3, 1917 by Various
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