Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
heath-cock or heath-hen.
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Examples
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Could you meet but with a martial phoca, instead of an unwarlike heath-bird. ''
The Antiquary 1845
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And now — Och, Och, Ohellany, Ohonari! the glen is desolate, and the braw snoods and bonnets are gane, and the Saxon’s house stands dull and lonely, like the single bare-breasted rock that the falcon builds on — the falcon that drives the heath-bird frae the glen.”
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Could you meet but with a martial _phoca, _ instead of an unwarlike heath-bird. "
The Antiquary — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801
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Could you meet but with a martial _phoca, _ instead of an unwarlike heath-bird. "
The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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Could you meet but with a martial phoca, instead of an unwarlike heath-bird.”
The Antiquary 1584
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