| 单词 |
heath-poult |
| 释义 |
ˈheath-poult Also -polt, -powt. = heath-bird; more spec. the female or young.
1678Ray Willughby's Ornith., The Merlin..They fly also Heath-pouts with it. 1687Lond. Gaz. No. 2263/4 It is His Majesties Will and Pleasure, That no Person do..presume to Hawk at any Heath-Poult, in any year before the 20th day of July. 1825Sporting Mag. XVI. 422 [He] had the good fortune..to get 16 shots at heath-poults, or black game. 1884Jefferies Red Deer ii. 33 Heath-poults, the female of black game, fly like a great partridge. 1887Pall Mall G. 4 Oct. 5/1 The young heath-poults are at first extremely tender creatures. |

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