Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
carrier-pigeon .
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Examples
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And by six A.M. he was up, in his study, dressed, looking quite owlish with his excess of eyes, which, however, danced at the first news of the morning -- the arrival at Portsmouth of the _Boodah II_., which had raced like a carrier-bird since 8.30 P.M. of the 29th, full of the news of the vanished _Mahomet_: on her being 200 marines.
The Lord of the Sea 1906
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