Rockier

adj, noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A small blue dove. UK, archaic, dialectal

    "Gilbert White writes, "I have consulted a sportsman who tells me that […] often there are amongst them little parties of small blue doves which he calls rockiers. The food of these numberless migrants was beechmast and some acorns.""

Adjective
  1. 1
    comparative form of rocky: more rocky comparative, form-of

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"Gilbert White writes, "I have consulted a sportsman who tells me that […] often there are amongst them little parties of small blue doves which he calls rockiers. The food of these numberless migrants was beechmast and some acorns.""

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