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Definition of Turkeys

1. a. Turkish.

Definition of Turkeys

1. Noun. (plural of turkey) ¹

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Definition of Turkeys

1. turkey [n] - See also: turkey

Lexicographical Neighbors of Turkeys

Literary usage of Turkeys

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Traditions of the Skidi Pawnee by George Amos Dorsey (1904)
"COYOTE AND THE turkeys.268 On a pretence of showing marvels, Coyote attracts turkeys, whom he kills. Coyote was going along, and he came to a village of ..."

2. Memoirs of the American Folk-lore Society by American Folklore Society (1904)
"On a pretence of showing marvels, Coyote attracts turkeys, whom he kills. Coyote was going along, and he came to a village of many turkeys. ..."

3. On the frontier: reminiscences of wild sports, personal adventures, and by J. S. Campion (1878)
"On arriving at the place we took the trail, and soon ran it to a ridge-top, covered with pinon trees, on the nuts of which the turkeys had been feeding. ..."

4. America Revisited: From the Bay of New York to the Gulf of Mexico, and from by George Augustus Sala (1883)
"That festive bird will have an equally hard time of it at Christmas, and especially at the New Year. SCALDING, PLUCKING, AND PLUMPING turkeys ..."

5. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1800)
"... in rearing turkeys, and complained, that the profit rarely indemnifies them for «heir trouble and lofs of time : whereas, continues he, little more is ..."

6. Biodiversity and the Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands edited by Leonard F. DeBano (1999)
"Wild turkeys are specified as a management indicator species on many ... Studies of Gould's turkeys in the Peloncillo Mountains were initiated in 1982 and ..."

7. The Canada Law Journal by Law Society of Upper Canada, William S. Hein & Company, Canadian Bar Association (1881)
"We consider that these ; turkeys are not properly speaking animals ' ferai ... The land on which the defendant is alleged i to have taken the turkeys in ..."

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