Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The cushat or ring-dove, Columba palumbus.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) The European ringdove (Columba palumbus); the cushat.

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  • noun Archaic form of cushat.

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  • A more descriptive name is that of ringdove, easily explained by the white collar, but the bird is also known as cushat, queest, or even culver.

    Birds in the Calendar 1894

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  • English, Welsh, and Irish regional nickname for the wood pigeon. Also "queest-dove" and "quoice."

    February 15, 2008