wood-questwood-quistwood-queestn.
/ˈwʊdkwɛst/, U.S. /ˈwʊdˌkwɛst/ Brit. /ˈwʊdkwɪst/, U.S. /ˈwʊdˌkwɪst/ Brit. /ˈwʊdkwiːst/, U.S. /ˈwʊdˌkwist/ Now dialect.
= wood pigeon n.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [noun] > family Columbidae > genus Columba > columba oenas (stock-dove)
wood-culvera1100
stock-dovec1340
wood-quest1543
wood pigeon1668
stock pigeon1783
stoggie1864
sand pigeon1884
the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [noun] > family Columbidae > genus Columba > columba palumbus (wood-pigeon)
cushata700
culverc825
wood-culvera1100
wood-dovec1386
queest?1440
ringed dove?1533
ring-dove1538
wood-quest1543
wood pigeon1668
ring pigeon1776
woodie1947
1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. iii. f. 109/2 Grated bread in the broth of a woodquyste.
1580 T. Newton Approoued Med. f. 85v Ye stockdooue, or Woodquist.
1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum xii. vi. 181/1 The Stock-doue or Wood-coyst.
1623 tr. A. Favyn Theater of Honour & Knight-hood ii. xiii. 231 Ring-doues, or Wood-coysts.
1761 Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 12 Dec. 2 Two Brothers being out a shooting Wood-quists.
1806 J. N. White Poems 18 The wood-quest wild.
1825 J. Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. 84 Wood-quist, a wood-pigeon.
1877 M. Laffan Hon. Miss Ferrard II. ii. 173 The woodquests' cooing formed a melodious bass.
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