Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Scotch moor-cock, red-grouse, or red-game, Lagopus scoticus. Also
garcock .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. The moor cock, or red grouse. See
grouse .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chiefly UK the
red grouse
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Examples
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The red grouse, gorcock, or moor-cock, weighs about nineteen ounces, and the female somewhat less.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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The red grouse, gorcock, or moor-cock, weighs about nineteen ounces, and the female somewhat less.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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High as such places are, on one of them a young gorcock was stricken down by a hawk close to our feet.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819
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The gorcock unalarmed crows among the moors and mosses -- the blackbird whistles in the birken shaw -- and the cony erects his ears at the mouth of his burrow, and whisks away frolicsome among the whins or heather.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819
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