Definition of Dovekey

1. dovekie [n -KEYS] - See also: dovekie

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dovekey

douzeniers
douzeper
douzepers
dove's-foot
dove's foot geranium
dove grey
dove plant
dovecot
dovecote
dovecotes
dovecots
doved
dovehouse
doveish
dovekey (current term)
dovekeys
dovekie
dovekies
dovelet
dovelets
dovelike
doveling
doven
dovened
dovening
dovens
dover's powder
dovera
dovered

Literary usage of Dovekey

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Last Voyage of Capt. Sir John Ross, R. N. Knt. to the Arctic Regions by Victory (Ship), Robert Huish (1836)
"... the men were not allowed any preserved meats, giving them instead, a dovekey or a dovekey and a half. The allowance of preserved meats was four Ibs. per ..."

2. Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the by William Edward Parry (1824)
"Mr. Ross succeeded in killing a single dovekey, which proved extremely curious from the whiteness of its plumage. It was probably on account of the present ..."

3. A Journal of a Voyage of Discovery to the Arctic Regions: In His Majesty's by Alexander Fisher (1821)
"... commonly called dovekey, or Greenland dove. Sunday, 3d. — The wind being very light, and what little there was of it being against us, ..."

4. The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc (1829)
"The other feathered inhabitants of the Greenland ocean, though eatable and esteemed as delicacies — the eider duck, the dovekey, the snow bunting, ..."

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