moorfowl
Americannoun
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moorfowls,
plural
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moorfowl
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of moorfowl
Example Sentences
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Yet here is a man, a little crazed perhaps, who finds dueling a pitiable farce and who would rather watch the love-antics of moorfowl at sunrise than slaughter them.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the same way moorfowl means, not a moor that is connected with a fowl, but a fowl that is connected with a moor.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
The moorfowl does not cry there, the coney has no habitation.
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro
They had been ower the neighbour's ground they had leave on up to the march, and they werena just to ken meiths when the moorfowl got up.”
From St. Ronan's Well by Sir Walter Scott
‘Perhaps upon his mouldering breast Some spitefu’ moorfowl bigs her nest.’
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
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