game bird

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noun

any bird hunted chiefly for sport, as a quail or pheasant, especially such a bird that is protected by game laws.

Origin of game bird

First recorded in 1865–70

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Historical Examples

Chicken-hazard is scotched, not killed; but a poor, weazened, etiolated biped is that once game-bird now.
The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims
Andrew Steinmetz
Argus, a pheasant, a beautiful Oriental game-bird, so called from the eye-like markings on its plumage.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
Edited by Rev. James Wood
If you spread open the wing of any game-bird, you will find the upper part (near the second joint) more or less bare.
Dog Breaking
William Nelson Hutchinson

British Dictionary definitions for game bird

game bird

noun

a bird of any species hunted as game

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Examples from the Web for game bird

Historical Examples

Chicken-hazard is scotched, not killed; but a poor, weazened, etiolated biped is that once game-bird now.

Argus, a pheasant, a beautiful Oriental game-bird, so called from the eye-like markings on its plumage.

If you spread open the wing of any game-bird, you will find the upper part (near the second joint) more or less bare.

game bird

Origin of game bird