Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A quail-pipe.
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Examples
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Spurred on by this, he tried mewing like a cat; but this did not go off so well; and after one more quail-call, he looked at them all and stopped.
On the Eve 1859
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Spurred on by this, he tried mewing like a cat; but this did not go off so well; and after one more quail-call, he looked at them all and stopped.
On the Eve Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850
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