| 单词 | smiter pigeon |
| 释义 | > as lemmassmiter pigeon 3. Also more fully smiter pigeon. A variety of the domestic pigeon which strikes its wings together over its back when flying, producing a loud clapping noise. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > domestic pigeon > [noun] > other types porcelainc1530 turn-pate1611 light horseman1661 runt1661 smiter1668 helmet1676 mammet1678 Cortbeck1688 turbit1688 turner1688 dragoon1725 finicking1725 Leghorn1725 nun1725 owl1725 petit1725 trumpeter1725 horseman1735 Mahomet1735 barbel1736 turn-tail1736 frill-back1765 blue rock1825 beard1826 ice pigeon1829 toy1831 black1839 skinnum1839 splash1851 whole-feather1851 spangle1854 swallow1854 shield1855 stork pigeon1855 Swabian1855 yellow1855 archangel1867 dragon1867 starling1867 magpie1868 smerle1869 bluette1870 cumulet1876 oriental1876 spot fairy1876 turbiteen1876 blondinette1879 hyacinth1879 Modena pigeon1879 silver-dun1879 silverette1879 silver-mealy1879 swift pigeon1879 Victoria1879 visor1879 ice1881 swallow pigeon1881 velvet fairy1881 priesta1889 frill1890 1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 76 Gyratices,..Clappers, & Smiters. 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 182 Smiters..clap them [sc. their wings] so strongly, that they make a greater sound than two Battledores or other boards struck one against another. 1778 G. White Let. 7 Aug. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 238 Pigeons, and particularly the sort called smiters, have a way of clashing their wings the one against the other over their backs with a loud snap. 1783 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. ii. 614 Smiter Pigeon, Le Pigeon batteur. 1854 L. A. Meall Moubray's Treat. Poultry 277 Smiter.—This sub-variety, if it ever existed as distinct, has now entirely disappeared. 1938 J. Walpole-Bond Hist. Sussex Birds II. 163 Both sexes [of the nightjar], in irritation, smack their wings above their backs, after the fashion of Smiter-Pigeons and the Ring-Dove, amongst other species. 1983 Amer. Pigeon Jrnl. 54/2 The Smiter is found only in self colors and is about the same size as the Belgian Ringbeater. < as lemmas |
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