Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A male turkey.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who swallows in haste; a greedy eater; a gormandizer.
- n. A turkey-cock. Also called gobble-cock and turkey-gobbler.
- n. An automatic bucket the halves of which separate at the bottom when lowered and close when a strain is put upon the hoisting-chain, digging into the material to be loaded. When the strain is removed the weight of the load causes the bucket to open.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A turkey cock; a bubbling Jock.
WordNet 3.0
- n. male turkey
- n. a hasty eater who swallows large mouthfuls
Etymologies
- gobble + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I carry a hawk call, that can really light 'em up, and one morning in gobbler season there was a single Canada goose flying up the valley and calling, and a gobbler was answering it's calls, so I now carry a goose call as well.”
Would a duck call or deer call work to get a turkey to shock gobble?
“Unless a gobbler is the absolute king of the woods he can be leery of other birds, and that includes your decoys.”
“Practice your wood craft, 80 percent of killing a gobbler is knowing the woods you hunt and moving and setting up carefully.”
I want to start spring turkey hunting and I dont know how to start out.
“While turkey hunting on beaver island we heard and saw a nice gobbler from a distance.”
“It seems the whole woods shake when a gobbler is gobbling just yards away.”
“Calling in a gobbler is especially gratifying when you do it with a peg you've made.”
“FIRST STEP Once it's clear to both hunters that a gobbler is hung up, Hunter A stays putand tries to keep the bird gobbling occasionally — without calling it back in — byusing locator calls only.”
“Good luck trying to call a gobbler away from the Primos folks next spring.”
“I called a gobbler in to about 15 yds and let my arrow fly.”
“Half the fun of turkey hunting is calling a gobbler in, watching him strut and do his thing, and then tricking him into coming close enough to get a clean shot.”
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Talkin' Turkey
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