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Definition of Gobblers
1. gobbler [n] - See also: gobbler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gobblers
Literary usage of Gobblers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Echoes from the Backwoods by Richard George Augustus Levinge (1846)
"... Mounds—Prairie Hens—Cure of Ague—Amherst- burg—Wild Turkeys—The gobblers.
But to return to Mackinaw—many of the war-canoes of the Indians at this place, ..."
2. Shooting on Upland, Marsh, and Stream: A Series of Articles Written by by William Bruce Leffingwell (1890)
"gobblers are always armed with spurs, and ornamented with beards, ... I have seen
a few gobblers in my long experience that had more than one beard—one that ..."
3. Shooting on Upland, Marsh, and Stream: A Series of Articles Written by by William Bruce Leffingwell (1890)
"gobblers are always armed with spurs, and ornamented with beards, ... I have seen
a few gobblers in my long experience that had more than one beard—one that ..."
4. The Poultry Book: Comprising the Breading and Management of Profitable and by William Bernhard Tegetmeier (1867)
"... which they keep carefully concealed from the gobblers. These latter, at this
time, worn out with their amorous duties and battles with their rivals, ..."
5. The Wild Turkey and Its Hunting by Edward Avery McIlhenny, Charles L. Jordan, Robert Wilson Shufeldt (1914)
"How many old, long-bearded gobblers (the joy and delight above every sort of game
on earth to the turkey hunter) would you bag in a year, or a lifetime? ..."
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