We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of woodcock in English
Usage of woodcock in English
1
In 1710 it was still possible to shoot woodcock in Regent Street.
2
Well I knew something was coming; coming swift as a rocketing woodcock.
3
A scream, and the woodcock, trumpeting shrilly, is drawn into the depths.
4
Harlson had learned his woodcock, but the Tokay was yet to come.
5
The woodcock were cooked to a turn; juicier birds never reclined on toast.
6
The pigeon, woodcock, and pheasant, are found in the forests as with us.
7
A woodcock floated silently on the bosom of the tiny lake.
8
Birds abound on Exmoor; snipe and woodcock, partridge and black-game, plover and wild-duck.
9
The Corbijeau is as large as the woodcock, and very common.
10
Finally we got on the woodcock ground and went to work.
11
That's why you always look for woodcock in a wet spot or marsh.
12
And there are unique savoury desserts such as mushroom trifolata or Scotch woodcock.
13
His chef ransacks the markets for pheasants, snipe, woodcock, Egyptian quail and canvasbacks.
14
One swallow makes not a spring, nor one woodcock a winter.
15
What's the matter with partridge and woodcock shooting in New England?
16
These pipes became known by the nickname of 'the woodcock's heads.'
About this term
Frequent collocations
More collocations
Woodcock through the time
Woodcock across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common