water hen
noun
waterhen
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a variation of
water hen.
Example Sentences
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The white-breasted waterhen constructs its nursery in a thicket at the margin of some village pond.
From A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Douglas Dewar
Our bag for three days was seventeen teal, twelve waterhen, one pigeon.
From Spinifex and Sand by David Wynford Carnegie
Charlie and I spent the afternoon in further exploring our surroundings, and on return to camp found our mates busily engaged in plucking some teal and waterhen which they had shot.
From Spinifex and Sand by David Wynford Carnegie
You saw what a fool I was making of myself, and yet you kept on drinking and carousing, and making a ninny of yourself, as though you had no more brains nor a waterhen.
From Tommy by Joseph Hocking
