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blackcock|ˈblækkɒk| The male of the black grouse or black game.
1427Scot. Acts Jas. I (1597) §108 Patricks, plovers, black-cockes. 1753Stewart's Trial App. 21 He would make black cocks of them, before they entered into possession, by which the deponent understood shooting them. 1815Scott Ld. of Isles v. xiii, The black-cock deem'd it day, and crew. 1832Proc. Berw. Nat. Club I. 5 The blackcock (Tetrao tetrix) was heard harshly calling to his mates. |