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单词 game bird
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game bird

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noun

any bird hunted chiefly for sport, as a quail or pheasant, especially such a bird that is protected by game laws.

Origin of game bird

First recorded in 1865–70

Words nearby game bird

Gambrinus, gambusia, game, gamebag, game-ball, game bird, gamebreaker, gamecast, game-change, game-changer, game chips
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Example sentences from the Web for game bird

  • Chicken-hazard is scotched, not killed; but a poor, weazened, etiolated biped is that once game-bird now.

    The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims|Andrew Steinmetz
  • If you spread open the wing of any game-bird, you will find the upper part (near the second joint) more or less bare.

    Dog Breaking|William Nelson Hutchinson

British Dictionary definitions for game bird

game bird

noun

a bird of any species hunted as game
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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