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Definition of Sickle feather
1. Noun. One of the long curved tail feathers of a rooster.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sickle Feather
Literary usage of Sickle feather
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1875)
"In Bantam cocks, any other variety, the winners were Blacks, the first in fine
bloom, and second good but short of one sickle feather ; and in the hens ..."
2. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1857)
"... in strong contrast to the color of the latter; tail full, carried very uprightly,
with the sickle feather well arched. The hens have the same colors, ..."
3. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1906)
"... a sickle feather from a hackle feather and wonder why they failed. Would you
expect success in the dry goods business if you could not tell calico from ..."
4. Book of poultry by Lewis Wright (1885)
"... but only moderately raised, and each sickle-feather as nearly as possible just
clearing the next one and no more ; the sickles and whole plumage sound, ..."
5. How to Raise Poultry for Pleasure and Profit: A Practical Work on Breed by William M. Lewis (1895)
"... and on the end of the feathers. Saddle—Clear straw color. Breast, Underpart
of Body, and Thighs— Bich black. Tail—Black. sickle feather* and Toff ..."
6. Stock-breeding: A Practical Treatise on the Applications of the Laws of by Manly Miles (1878)
"... viz., that even a very trifling disposition to sickle- feather in the tail
brings with it proportionably increased productiveness; and that, ..."
7. Stock-breeding: A Practical Treatise on the Applications of the Laws of by Manly Miles (1878)
"... viz., that even a very trifling disposition to sickle- feather in the tail
brings with it proportionably increased productiveness; and that, ..."
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