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单词 rough-footed pigeon
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rough-footed pigeon
1. Having feathered (or furry) feet. Chiefly in the names of birds and domestic varieties of them, as rough-footed cock, rough-footed pigeon, etc. Cf. rough-foot adj. 2, rough-legged adj.In quot. 2009: having rough scales on the feet.
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feather-footed1580
row-foot1896
1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xii. vii. sig. Aviii/2 Therfore rouh foted [a1398 BL Add. 27944 rowfoted, 1535 rough footed] douues brede well nyghe in euery month.
1594 R. Barnfield Affectionate Shepheard ii. vii. sig. Ci Ile giue thee fine ruffe-footed Doues to keepe.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Cheveche,..th'ordinarie rough-footed, and short-taild Owle.
1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 75 Alba, Lagopus,..the white and rough-footed Partridge.
1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 156 A rough footed Cock and Hen.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Pigeon The tame Rough-footed ones differ not much from the wild [pigeons].
1783 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. ii. 709 Rough-footed Cock.
1834 R. Mudie Feathered Tribes Brit. Islands I. 74 The principal [fancy pigeons] are the Barbary, the Laced, the Norway, the Rough-footed, [etc.].
1854 Poultry Chron. 1 460/2 These rough-footed Tumblers I found very plentiful in and about Coblenz.
1910 Nature 15 Dec. 208/1 At Rossitten numbers of hooded crows.., storks, rough-footed buzzards, and various species of Totanidæ..have been ringed.
1920 F. S. Allen Allen's Synonyms & Antonyms 178/2 Feather-footed, referring to a dog: rough-footed, rough-legged.
2009 C. H. Ernst & J. E. Lovich Turtles of U.S. & Canada (ed. 2) 490/2 The rough-footed mud turtle barely reaches the United States.
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