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Definition of Sprigtail
1. Noun. Large grouse of prairies and open forests of western North America.
Definition of Sprigtail
1. n. The pintail duck; -- called also sprig, and spreet-tail.
Definition of Sprigtail
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Sprigtail
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sprigtail
Literary usage of Sprigtail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Sportsman: Containing Hints to Sportsmen, Notes on Shooting by Elisha Jarrett Lewis, George G. White (1863)
"... OR sprigtail. looking duck is known to ^differently as the pintail or ie latter
appellation is per- common. They frequent it streams of almost every ..."
2. The American Sportsman: Containing Hints to Sportsmen, Notes on Shooting by Elisha Jarrett Lewis (1857)
"HIS handsome-looking duck is known to our shooters indifferently as the pintail
or sprigtail. The latter appellation is perhaps the most common. ..."
3. The Water-fowl Family by Leonard Cutler Sanford, Louis Bennett Bishop, Theodore Strong Van Dyke (1903)
"The duck is never more attractive than when he first looms into the circle of
expectation, and the sprigtail swinging one hundred strong around some bold ..."
4. The Fisheries Exhibition Literature (1884)
"This sprigtail consisted of a crooked pin, with a double bend, having the form
of two knees; to this was affixed about four horse-hairs, and baited with ..."
5. "Forest and Stream" Bird Notes: An Index and Summary of All the by Harry B. Bailey (1881)
"Dabchick. Pied-billed, See Podilymbus podiceps. Dalila acuta. Pintail ; sprigtail.
i., 13, 204—Abundant in Florida—Editors, ..."
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