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Definition of Landrail
1. corncrake [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Landrail
Literary usage of Landrail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"... in Bleak House, embodies Dickens's impressions of Landor 'with his intellectual
greatness left out.' landrail. See CORN-CRAKE. ..."
2. Nature and Sport in Britain by Henry Anderson Bryden (1904)
"CHAPTER VIII THE landrail A familiar figure—Hard to retrieve when ... TO the
September gunner the landrail is, of course, a familiar figure enough. ..."
3. The Gun: Afield & Afloat by Henry Sharp (1904)
"LTHOUGH no strikingly close affinity exists •**• between quail and landrail, it
accords with the general fitness of things that the description of these two ..."
4. Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer by James Edmund Harting (1877)
"... into seed —clover, rape, or mustard—seldom fail in such places to pick up a
landrail or two, and add in this way a pleasing variety to their bag. ..."
5. Natural History & Sport in Moray by Charles St. John, Cosmo Innes (1882)
"IN this region May is invariably ushered in by the croak of the landrail (Crex
pratensis). ... The movements of the landrail are very peculiar and ..."
6. A Tour in Sutherlandshire: With Extracts from the Field-books of a Sportsman by Charles St. John (1849)
"The landrail; Arrival and Habits of — Cuckoo — Swift — Associations ... THE landrail
is one of the most numerous and most regular of our birds of passage. ..."
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