cushat

American  

[kuhsh-uht, koosh-] / ˈkʌʃ ət, ˈkʊʃ- /

noun

British Dialect.

1. the ringdove, Colomba palumbus.

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cushat British  

/ ˈkʌʃət /

noun

1. another name for wood pigeon

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Etymology

Origin of cushat

before 900; Middle English couschot, Old English cūscote wood pigeon

Example Sentences

I do not love The eyrie, but low woodland nest Of cushat dove: Not wind, but calm; not toil, but rest And sleep in grassy meadow's breast.

From The Two Twilights by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

She covered her with noiseless kisses; she murmured love over her, like a cushat fostering its young.

From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte

The peregrines had killed cushat and partridge, the merlin its half-score of buntings and turtle-doves, and the ladies having had a surfeit of sport, were about setting faces homeward.

From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne

I used to miss the lark’s song in the morning, and the evening voices of the cushat and the blackbird.

From Janet's Love and Service by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)

The sudden whirr of a cushat is an incident, or the leaping of a lamb among the broom.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by Wilson, John