Lexicographical Neighbors of Landrails
Literary usage of Landrails
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting by Peter Hawker (1859)
"SHOOTING Woodcocks, Snipes, Quails, landrails, or Rabbits, though, for the latter,
open to certain exceptions. As the clause is so short, I will quote from ..."
2. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge by ed Andrew Findlater, John Merry Ross (1868)
"... and landrails, is liable to a penalty of £2. t has been held that this offence
is committed whenever a stranger has de fado gone upon the lands to shoot ..."
3. Woodfall's Law of Landlord and Tenant by William Woodfall (1890)
"31, " where any person shall be found upon any land in the daytime in search or
pursuit of game, or woodcocks, snipes, quails, landrails or conies, ..."
4. The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1807-1868/69] by Great Britain, George Kettilby Rickards (1832)
"... upon any Land in search or pursuit of Game, or of Deer, Roe, Woodcocks, Snipes,
Quails, landrails, Wild Ducks, or Conies, each of such Persons shall, ..."
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