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- noun Plural form of
turkey-chick .
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Examples
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Cruel it is, but nature, an 'no worse than snow an' ice that starve deer, or a fox that kills turkey-chicks. breakin 'out of the egg, or ravens that pick the eyes out of new-born lambs an' wait till they die.
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The day before he went back to his own home, now so strange to him, he was out with her, searching for some lost turkey-chicks, and found one with its foot caught in a tangle of rusty wire.
Hillsboro People Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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The day before he went back to his own home, now so strange to him, he was out with her, searching for some lost turkey-chicks, and found one with its foot caught in a tangle of rusty wire.
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Cruel it is, but nature, an 'no worse than snow an' ice that starve deer, or a fox that kills turkey-chicks breakin 'out of the egg, or ravens that pick the eyes out of new-born lambs an' wait till they die.
The Man of the Forest Zane Grey 1905
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Jest helpin 'Sally put the turkey-chicks to bed out
The Leatherwood God William Dean Howells 1878
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