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Definition of Blackcock
1. Noun. Male black grouse.
Definition of Blackcock
1. n. The male of the European black grouse (Tetrao tetrix, Linn.); - - so called by sportsmen. The female is called gray hen. See Heath grouse.
Definition of Blackcock
1. Noun. the male black grouse ¹
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Definition of Blackcock
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Blackcock
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Blackcock
Literary usage of Blackcock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1863)
"They show a resemblance to both parents, and their size is intermediate between
them ; being rather less than that of the male blackcock, and 18 inches in ..."
2. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1899)
"FM LUTYENS, Author of "Mr. Spinks and his Hounds." The blackcock and ...
The blackcock has always been to me a very interesting bird. In the first place, ..."
3. Tyrol and the Tyrolese: The People and the Land in Their Social, Sporting by William Adolph Baillie-Grohman (1877)
"... largest of European gallinaceous birds, and the blackcock (Tetrao ... the more
magnificent bird of the two, the blackcock is considered the nobler game. ..."
4. Ivan at Home: Or, Pictures of Russian Life by Barry, Herbert (1872)
"blackcock SHOOTING. " TT is twelve o'clock, Barrin, and time to start," said my
head forester, entering my cabinet one night in the month of April, ..."
5. Out of Doors in Tsarland: A Record of the Seeings and Doings of a Wanderer by Frederick Whishaw (1893)
"Those who have thus met with the members of the family will probably agree with
me that the . blackcock during the shooting season is not a highly original ..."
6. The Evolutionist at Large by Grant Allen (1881)
"blackcock. XX. blackcock. JUST at the present moment the poor black grouse are
generally having a hot time of it. After their quiet spring and summer they ..."
7. Popular Tales from the Norse by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Jørgen Engebretsen Moe (1912)
"ONCE on a time the Cock, the Cuckoo, and the blackcock bought a cow between them.
But when they came to share it, and couldn't agree which should buy the ..."
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