moorfowl
Americannoun
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moorfowls,
plural
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moorfowl
plural
noun
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Origin of moorfowl
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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
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
I hear of a disease among the moorfowl.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
Already he had struck a fine moorfowl that ran amongst the gorse and I a hare that sat upright beneath a leafy beech, thinking himself well hidden.
From Cedric, the Forester by Bernard Gay Marshall
We carried in leathern pouches a store of bread and meat for the midday meal; and William had made shift to shoot a moorfowl that he spied running midst the gorse by the wayside.
From Cedric, the Forester by Bernard Gay Marshall
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