Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A clay disk thrown as a flying target for skeet and trapshooting. Also called bird.
Wiktionary
- n. A flying target, usually a disc, made of a mixture of pitch and pulverized limestone rock, used as moving target in sport shooting.
WordNet 3.0
- n. target used in skeet or trapshooting
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Up In The Air @ Wordnik
List of words, terms, and phrases pertaining to or referencing anything that lives, traverses, moves in, uses, or otherwise occupies the space above the ground we walk on. Words and phrases contain...
aeroallergen, aerial, aerial mapping, aerial root, aerobe, aerobiology, aerobioscope, aelophilous, anemotropism, anemoclastic, anafront, antitrades and 273 more...
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pigeons and doves
309 species of pigeon according to
Animal (DK),pigeons produce crop
milk.Thirty-two pigeons have been decorated with the Dickin Medal.
Colloquial responsibility; concern: that's h...Columbidae, squab, rock dove, feral rock pigeon, crop milk, dove, wood pigeon, pink pigeon, eurasian collared..., mourning dove, magnificent fruit..., New zealand pigeon and 131 more...
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ENVI - Collocations ABC
An extract from the "Zold Tolmacs" project, a HU-EN environmental dictionary compiled by Robert Gulyas in 2000.
AA battery, aa lava, aapa mire, abandon the project, abandon the sewer..., abandoned car, abandoned dyke, abandoned farm, abandoned field, abandoned industr..., abandoned industr..., abandoned land and 5386 more...
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Animalia Wordia
Words or short phrases with animal names in them. Since I already have a dedicated list for 'monkey' words I shall leave them out of this one for the moment.
paper tiger, pigeon-hearted, lion-hearted, sacred cow, chicken heart, fraidy cat, scaredy-cat, snake oil, can of worms, snake pit, rat's nest, stool pigeon and 114 more...
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C is for Caddyshack
My C Words
cavalcade, charlie browniest, cakewalk, clambake, caboose, cadaver, caddyshack, cadillac, cahoots, calaboose, cannonball, canopy and 145 more...
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