rocketer
/ˈrɒkɪtə/(also rocketter)
noun
A game bird, especially a pheasant, that is flying fast and high, specifically one that flies rapidly straight up when flushed from cover.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country. From rocket + -er.
- bad-minded
- badminton
- bad money
- bad mood
- bad-mouth
- badness
- bad news
- Badon Hill, Battle of
- bad (or tough or rotten) luck
- bad penny
- bad quarto
- bad seed
- bad-talk
- bad taste
- bad-tempered
- bad-temperedly
- bad trip
- badware
- bae
- Baedeker, Karl
- Baekeland, Leo Hendrik
- Baer, Karl Ernest von
- Baeyer, Adolph von
- peridinian
- peridiniean