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Definition of Moorcocks
1. moorcock [n] - See also: moorcock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moorcocks
Literary usage of Moorcocks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practical Cook, English and Foreign: Containing a Great Variety of Old by Joseph Bregion, Anne Miller (1845)
"Plovers' eggs are a nice and fashionable dish. Boil them ten minutes, and serve
either hot or cold on a napkin. GROUSE and moorcocks are also roasted in the ..."
2. Selections from the Household Books of the Lord William Howard of Naworth by William Howard, George Ornsby (1878)
"8 moorcocks, ij8. 4 pigeons, vjd. Butter and chees, xd. Egs, vj3. 12 hens, vjs.
4 black cocks and 3 gray hens, ..."
3. The Visitation of the County of Worcester Made in the Year 1569: With Other by William Phillimore Watts Phillimore, Richard Mundy (1888)
"Quarterly of six: 1 and 6, Per chevron argent and sable, in chief two moorcocks
of the second, a crescent for difference, ..."
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