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Definition of Moorfowls
1. moorfowl [n] - See also: moorfowl
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moorfowls
Literary usage of Moorfowls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1809)
"They have alfo a great plenty of moorfowls, plovers, as much if not more than in
any place of Scotland. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1828)
"... you must be quick in your seizures ; for an ye gie but the witches o' Traquair
ten minutes, ye will hae naething o' them but moorfowls an' patricks ..."
3. Proceedings by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1893)
"... says : " Sometimes they'll find moorfowls in their nests." These Brand thought
the peregrines brought from Orkney, but it seems possible that the grouse ..."
4. Tales and Sketches by James Hogg (1837)
"... my lord governor, you must be quick in your seizures ; for an ye gie but the
witches o' Traquair ten minutes, ye will hae naething o' them but moorfowls ..."
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