Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of a breed of domestic pigeons having a small crested head and a ruffled breast.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An obsolete form of turbot.
- n. A breed of domestic pigeons with white body and colored wings, ruffled breast, very short stout beak, flattened head, and peak-crest or shell-crest or both. There are several color-varieties; some are whole-colored.
Wiktionary
- n. A kind of pigeon developed over many years of selective breeding, known for its peaked crest, short beak, and frill of feathers on the breast.
- n. The turbot.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) The turbot.
- n. (Zoöl.) A variety of the domestic pigeon, remarkable for its short beak.
Etymologies
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“White soop, turbit, and lobstir sos; saddil of Scoch muttn, grous, and”
“Soup top and bottom (white and brown), removed by turbit and sammon with immense boles of lobster-sauce.”
“Perhaps the first pouter-pigeon did not inflate its crop much more than the turbit now does the upper part of its sophagus, a habit which is disregarded by all fanciers, as it is not one of the points of the breed.”
“The turbit has a short and conical beak, with a line of reversed feathers down the breast; and it has the habit of continually expanding slightly, the upper part of the sophagus.”
I. Variation under Domestication. Breeds of the Domestic Pigeon, Their Differences and Origin
“The head should be round and smooth, the neck thin, and the tail similar to that of the turbit.”
“Perhaps the first pouter-pigeon did not inflate its crop much more than the turbit now does the upper part of its oesophagus, — a habit which is disregarded by all fanciers, as it is not one of the points of the breed.”
“The turbit has a very short and conical beak, with a line of reversed feathers down the breast; and it has the habit of continually expanding slightly the upper part of the oesophagus.”
“Perhaps the first pouter-pigeon did not inflate its crop much more than the turbit now does the upper part of its oesophagus, -- a habit which is disregarded by all fanciers, as it is not one of the points of the breed.”
“A mongrel, whose four grandparents were a white turbit, white trumpeter, white fantail, and blue pouter, was white all over, except a very few feathers about the head and on the wings, but the whole tail and tail-coverts were dark bluish-grey.”
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.
“In the case of the pouter we may suppose that some bird inflated its crop a little more than other pigeons, as is now the case in a slight degree with the oesophagus of the turbit.”
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.
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qroqqa The turbit has a short and conical beak, with a line of reversed feathers down the breast; and it has the habit of continually expanding, slightly, the upper part of the oesophagus.
—Origin of Species, ch. 1
A kind of pigeon. Possibly from L turbo "(spinning) top", which possibly also gave 'turbot' the fish. Feb 10, 2009