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blackcock

/blak-kok/US // ˈblækˌkɒk //UK // (ˈblækˌkɒk) //

黑卡,黑鸡,黑客,黑鸡鸡

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the male of the black grouse.

Examples

  • The swelling heights were brown and bare, like those of Tweeddale; and there the blackcock may still, I believe, be found.

  • Their articulations are not so loud as the crow of the blackcock, the clamour of the peewit, or the call of the grouse.

  • The only sound beside that of running water is the cry of the grouse, the blackcock, or the peewit.

  • Or set him to stalk a blackcock, perched high of an Autumn morning on a dyke.

  • I'm thinking of having a go at the blackcock, honoured Natalya Stepanovna, after the harvest.