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单词 carrier pigeon
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Definition of carrier pigeon in English:

carrier pigeon

noun
  • A pigeon trained to carry messages tied to its neck or leg.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I'm just waiting for his campaign to abolish e-mail and bring back the carrier pigeon.
    • General Slim listed carrier pigeons, dogs, ponies, mules, horses, bullocks, buffaloes, and elephants as all being used by his Fourteenth Army in the Burma campaign.
    • ‘I have heard of carrier pigeons,’ Soren finally said.
    • The biggest shortcoming of the book is its paucity of illustrations: we're told over and over about amazing creatures from the gomphothere to the carrier pigeon, but only a handful of them are pictured.
    • ‘This came for you on a carrier pigeon early this morning,’ he replied.
    • A signal flare was fired and a carrier pigeon released in order to convey to HMS Arethusa waiting off-shore that the battery had been silenced.
    • Send smoke signals or carrier pigeons for assistance,’ remarked one resident.
    • Using Schletterer's connections with the pigeon breeder network, some 40 experts are now keeping and training about 1,500 carrier pigeons for military use.
    • When I fell sick, I sent a carrier pigeon down to the nearby village of Kishon.
    • Even the ancient standby of the carrier pigeon was resorted to by both sides.
    • The New York World, owned by Joseph Pulitzer, used carrier pigeons to deliver photographic negatives.
    • The carrier pigeons were often a vital link between remote police stations when traditional communications failed, beating storms, disasters - and birds of prey.
    • Reuters was then a scruffy but prestigious news agency, with a heavy emphasis on business information going back to the days when it delivered stock prices via carrier pigeons.
    • There were two impulses to the following: the impulse to follow him, that is me, and the impulse to simply, like a carrier pigeon, return home.
    • This was in the days before the internet and I, as a young cub reporter, had to send my missives from the front line back to the Telegraph by carrier pigeon.
    • Sending a carrier pigeon down Pennsylvania Avenue with a diplomatic note doesn't work in the United States.
    • Command and control through the use of fires, flags, trumpets, carrier pigeons, etc., continued to be a part of warfare for centuries.
    • It was founded by Paul Julius Reuter, a German Jew transplanted to London who had once used carrier pigeons to bridge a telegraph gap between Belgium and Germany.
    • Once the armies left their railheads, they moved largely at the speed of the marching man and communicated at the speed of the galloping horse or the carrier pigeon, exactly like the armies of a century before.
    • It is believed the samples were intercepted while being transported by carrier pigeon to the testing laboratory.
 
 

Definition of carrier pigeon in US English:

carrier pigeon

nounˈkerēər ˌpijənˈkɛriər ˌpɪdʒən
  • A homing pigeon trained to carry messages tied to its neck or leg.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • ‘This came for you on a carrier pigeon early this morning,’ he replied.
    • The New York World, owned by Joseph Pulitzer, used carrier pigeons to deliver photographic negatives.
    • Even the ancient standby of the carrier pigeon was resorted to by both sides.
    • A signal flare was fired and a carrier pigeon released in order to convey to HMS Arethusa waiting off-shore that the battery had been silenced.
    • There were two impulses to the following: the impulse to follow him, that is me, and the impulse to simply, like a carrier pigeon, return home.
    • Using Schletterer's connections with the pigeon breeder network, some 40 experts are now keeping and training about 1,500 carrier pigeons for military use.
    • When I fell sick, I sent a carrier pigeon down to the nearby village of Kishon.
    • Once the armies left their railheads, they moved largely at the speed of the marching man and communicated at the speed of the galloping horse or the carrier pigeon, exactly like the armies of a century before.
    • Sending a carrier pigeon down Pennsylvania Avenue with a diplomatic note doesn't work in the United States.
    • Command and control through the use of fires, flags, trumpets, carrier pigeons, etc., continued to be a part of warfare for centuries.
    • Reuters was then a scruffy but prestigious news agency, with a heavy emphasis on business information going back to the days when it delivered stock prices via carrier pigeons.
    • It was founded by Paul Julius Reuter, a German Jew transplanted to London who had once used carrier pigeons to bridge a telegraph gap between Belgium and Germany.
    • The biggest shortcoming of the book is its paucity of illustrations: we're told over and over about amazing creatures from the gomphothere to the carrier pigeon, but only a handful of them are pictured.
    • The carrier pigeons were often a vital link between remote police stations when traditional communications failed, beating storms, disasters - and birds of prey.
    • I'm just waiting for his campaign to abolish e-mail and bring back the carrier pigeon.
    • ‘I have heard of carrier pigeons,’ Soren finally said.
    • Send smoke signals or carrier pigeons for assistance,’ remarked one resident.
    • It is believed the samples were intercepted while being transported by carrier pigeon to the testing laboratory.
    • General Slim listed carrier pigeons, dogs, ponies, mules, horses, bullocks, buffaloes, and elephants as all being used by his Fourteenth Army in the Burma campaign.
    • This was in the days before the internet and I, as a young cub reporter, had to send my missives from the front line back to the Telegraph by carrier pigeon.
 
 
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