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turbit

[ tur-bit ]

noun

  1. one of a breed of domestic pigeons having a stout, roundish body, a short head and beak, and a ruffled breast and neck.


turbit

/ ˈtɜːbɪt /

noun

  1. a crested breed of domestic pigeon
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of turbit1

1680–90; variant of turbot; apparently because, like the fish, the bird is toplike in outline
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Word History and Origins

Origin of turbit1

C17: from Latin turbō spinning top, with reference to the bird's shape; compare turbot
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Example Sentences

Turbit, tur′bit, n. a domestic pigeon having white body, coloured wings, and short beak.

White soop, turbit, and lobster sos; saddil of Scoch muttn, grous, and M'Arony; wines, shampang, hock, madeiria, a bottle of poart, and ever so many of clarrit.

By searching for breeds still preserved in distant lands, and by going back to historical records, tumbler-pigeons, carriers, and barbs can be closely connected with the parent rock-pigeon; but we cannot thus connect the turbit or the pouter.

But here is a more remarkable fact: I crossed a turbit, which has a frill formed by the feathers being reversed on its breast, with a trumpeter; and one of the young pigeons thus raised showed at first not a trace of the frill, but, after moulting thrice, a small yet unmistakably distinct frill appeared on its breast.

When fowls, pigeons, or cattle of different colours are crossed, and their offspring change colour as they grow old, or when the crossed turbit acquired the characteristic frill after its third moult, or when purely-bred bantams partially assume the red plumage of their prototype, we cannot doubt that these qualities were from the first present, though latent, in the individual animal, like the characters of a moth in the caterpillar.

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