gorcock

/ ˈɡɔːˌkɒk /

noun

1. the male of the red grouse

Word History and Origins

Origin of gorcock¹

C17: gor- (of unknown origin) + cock ¹

Example Sentences

Gorcock, gor′kok, n. the moorcock or red grouse:—fem.

From Project Gutenberg

Pure white is she all over except for a garland of crimson across her breast, a blue patch round her wondrous eyes, and the red of the gorcock over the beak.

From Project Gutenberg

When our gun goes to our shoulder, that chance is but small; for with double-barrel Brown Bess, it is but a word and a blow,—the blow first, and long before you could say Jack Robinson, the gorcock plays thud on the heather.

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High as such places are, on one of them a young gorcock was stricken down by a hawk close to our feet.

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The gorcock unalarmed crows among the moors and mosses—the blackbird whistles in the birken shaw—and the cony erects his ears at the mouth of his burrow, and whisks away frolicsome among the whins or heather.

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