单词 | moor-cock |
释义 | ˈmoor-cock [f. moor n.1 + cock n.1] The male of the red grouse, Lagopus scoticus. Also occas. the blackcock, Tetrao tetrix.
1329–30Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 16 In..xij Murkokes emptis. In..vij Murkokes. 1427Sc. Acts Jas. I (1814) II. 16/2 Blak cokes gra hennys and mur cokes. 1567Golding Ovid's Met. viii. (1593) 201 Now it is a meare And moorecockes, cootes, and cormorants do breed and nestle there. a1695Wood Oxford (O.H.S.) III. 157 Arms..argent, a chevron between 3 more-cocks sable. 1731E. Albin Nat. Hist. Birds I. 23 The Red Game, or More-Cock Lagopus altera. 1780Edmondson Her., Moor cock, the male of the black game, or large black grouse. 1850J. Struthers Life Poet. Wks. I. p. xiv, The Scraigh of the paitrick, the birr of the muircock. 1899Crockett Kit Kennedy 298 Moor-cocks were crowing in the hollows. |

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