heath-poultn.
= heath-bird n.; more spec. the female or young.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Tetraonidae (grouse) > [noun] > member of genus Lyrurus (black grouse)
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heath-bird1683
moor game1769
the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Tetraonidae (grouse) > [noun] > member of genus Lyrurus (black grouse) > female
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Tetraonidae (grouse) > [noun] > member of genus Lyrurus (black grouse) > young
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1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. ii. i. i. ix. 85 The Merlin... They fly also Heath-pouts with it.
1687 London 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.
1825 Sporting Mag. 16 422 [He] had the good fortune..to get 16 shots at heath-poults, or black game.
1884 R. Jefferies Red Deer ii. 33 Heath-poults, the female of black game, fly like a great partridge.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Oct. 5/1 The young heath-poults are at first extremely tender creatures.
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