ground owl
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ground owl
An Americanism dating back to 1910–15
Example Sentences
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This yere ground owl party, drivin' for the Mockin' Bird, comes clatterin' along with the buckboard jest as Turkey Track strips the saddle an' bridle from his deefunct pony.
From Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories by W. Herbert Dunton
An' when the evenin' settles, A-waitin' for the dawn Perhaps I'll hear the ground owl: "She's gone — she's gone — she's gone!"
From Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp by John Avery Lomax
Turkey Track piles his saddle an' bridle onto the r'ar of the buckboard, an' settin' in behind on his plunder, commands the ground owl driver to head west till further orders.
From Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories by W. Herbert Dunton
Hinwu, big owl; Kele, mountain wolf; Kleréu Lulimet, wild lily; Pili Lúlimet, reed grass blossom; Pokok, ground owl; Pom Piweki, crooked land; Satok Pokaila, ——; Sas, the sun; Tsurat, red-headed woodpecker; Tunhlucha, frog.
From Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind by Jeremiah Curtin
A ground owl and some prairie dogs were in one of them, and we suspected they might be winter quarters for the Indians.
From Death Valley in '49 by William Lewis Manly
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