Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A breed of domestic fowls, of good size, and of fair quality as egg-producers, but especially valuable for the table.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an English breed of large domestic fowl having five toes (the hind toe doubled)

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Examples

  • If found out about this just yesterday and Dorking is actually local to me so I plan on going to help out.

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  • I'll have to remember about the charity shops but Dorking is now in the wrong place for me with all those roadworks etc at Hindhead and it takes forever to get there, let alone home again.

    Saturday bits katelnorth 2008

  • This appears to be a farm between Wooton and Abinger Hammer on the A25 from Guildford to Dorking, that is east of Guildford where the original outbreaks were to the west of Guildford.

    FMD Spin Continues 2007

  • This appears to be a farm between Wooton and Abinger Hammer on the A25 from Guildford to Dorking, that is east of Guildford where the original outbreaks were to the west of Guildford.

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  • I feel myself therefore as I allways do under such circumstances; and am going to take (on Friday) a ramble over Lieth Hills &c in the vicinity of Dorking.

    Letter 232 2009

  • Mr Norris being on his return this morning to London I send you a word just to inform you that, I have been so well entertained here that, I do not intend to start for Canterbury untill saturday, when I shall walk from hence (over hills something like those in the neighbourhood of Dorking) to Rochester, and from thence by the high road to Canterbury.

    Letter 192 2009

  • I promised you some account of my short excursion to Dorking during the late vacant days of my employment; and I must abridge my plan I perceive before I begin, as I have other letters to write.

    Letter 106 2009

  • I promise myself another excursion to Dorking if I have life and Health, and by that time may be able to take draughts.

    Letter 106 2009

  • So I gave it up, and still determining to go out of the smoke I took a ride down to Dorking in Surrey stayd two nights and came back on Wednesday.

    Letter 105 2009

  • I therefore came back through Dorking and crossing the Mole at the bridge on the road leading to Rygate I clim'd up the Hill on its south side; it is composed entirely of chalk and its southern front steep enough to tire any one with a tolerable stock of perseverance: they have contrived to cultivate part of its declivity which I should not suppose would answer ploughing.

    Letter 106 2009

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