| 单词 | sickle-feather |
| 释义 | > as lemmassickle-feather sickle-feather n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [noun] > cock > parts of > feather hackle1496 heckle?a1500 sickle-feather1688 saddle feather1854 saddle hackle1854 sickle1882 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 251/1 The Cocks..tail consists all of crooked bending feathers (Sickle Feathers as some call them). 1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 25 The sickle feathers of the tail are perhaps equally characteristic of the genus. < as lemmas |
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