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Definition of Turbit
1. n. The turbot.
Definition of Turbit
1. a domestic pigeon [n -S]
Medical Definition of Turbit
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Turbit
Literary usage of Turbit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rural Affairs by John Jacob Thomas (1875)
"THE OWL in form resembles the turbit, except that the upper part of its beak is
hooked ... THE turbit is also a very compact bird, with a short thick bill, ..."
2. The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian: Concerning the Kingdoms and by Marco Polo, Henry Yule, Henri Cordier (1903)
"There is in this kingdom a great quantity of pepper, and ginger, and cinnamon,
and turbit, and of nuts of I ndia.4 They also manufacture very delicate and ..."
3. The Illustrated Annual Register of Rural Affairs and Cultivator Almanac for by John Jacob Thomas (1873)
"THE OWL in form resembles the turbit, except that the upper part of its beak is
hooked ... THE turbit is also a very compact bird, with a short thick bill, ..."
4. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1874)
"The turbit Ц thought by many to be a native of the south of France, ... [The
turbit is without doubt one of the very prettiest of all onr Toy Pigeons. ..."
5. Lectures on the Darwinian Theory Delivered by the Late Arthur Milnes Marshall by Arthur Milnes Marshall (1894)
"The characters of the principal breeds of domestic pigeons: pouter, carrier,
barb, fantail, turbit, tumbler. Evidence in support of the descent of the ..."
6. Our Fancy Pigeons: And Rambling Notes of a Naturalist. A Record of Fifty by George Ure (1886)
"THE turbit. The tui-bit I think I have given my opinion on already. The show form
of it is now by far too owl-like, the peak and coloured shoulders being ..."
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