Lexicographical Neighbors of Dovekey
Literary usage of Dovekey
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Last Voyage of Capt. Sir John Ross, R. N. Knt. to the Arctic Regions by Victory (Ship), Robert Huish (1836)
"... the men were not allowed any preserved meats, giving them instead, a dovekey
or a dovekey and a half. The allowance of preserved meats was four Ibs. per ..."
2. Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the by William Edward Parry (1824)
"Mr. Ross succeeded in killing a single dovekey, which proved extremely curious
from the whiteness of its plumage. It was probably on account of the present ..."
3. A Journal of a Voyage of Discovery to the Arctic Regions: In His Majesty's by Alexander Fisher (1821)
"... commonly called dovekey, or Greenland dove. Sunday, 3d. — The wind being very
light, and what little there was of it being against us, ..."
4. The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc (1829)
"The other feathered inhabitants of the Greenland ocean, though eatable and esteemed
as delicacies — the eider duck, the dovekey, the snow bunting, ..."
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