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Partridge

noun

Flesh of either quail or grouse.

Heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds. Synonym: tinamou.

Small Old World gallinaceous game birds.

A popular North American game bird; named for its call. Synonyms: bobwhite, bobwhite quail.

Valued as a game bird in eastern United States and Canada. Synonyms: Bonasa umbellus, ruffed grouse.

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"Partridge" Quotes from Famous Books

... one o' the books I bought at Partridge's sale. They was all bound alike,—it's a good binding, you see,—and I thought they'd be all good books. There's Jeremy Taylor's 'Holy Living and Dying' among 'em. I read in it often of a Sunday" (Mr. Tulliver ...

— The Mill on the Floss • George Eliot

... period arrives and ceases, when the nearest male relative makes a feast; after which she is considered a fully matured woman; but she has to refrain from eating anything fresh for one year after her first monthly sickness; she may however eat partridge, but it must be cooked in the crop of the bird to render it harmless. I would have thought it impossible to perform this feat had I not seen it done. The crop is blown out, and a small bent willow put round the mouth; it is then filled with water, and the meat being first minced ...

— Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I. • Sir James George Frazer

... the intruders on his quiet haunts defiance; yet so bold in his indignation, he scarcely condescended to ascend beyond their reach. The long-continued, hollow tapping of the large red-headed woodpecker, or the singular subterranean sound caused by the drumming of the partridge striking his wings upon his breast to woo his gentle mate, and the soft whispering note of the little tree-creeper, as it flitted from one hemlock to another, collecting its food between the fissures of the bark, were among the few sounds that broke the ...

— Lost in the Backwoods • Catharine Parr Traill

... he wrought it into solid walls almost as high on either hand as Annie's head. In dark nooks, where the spreading pines and hemlocks lay low and wide, he tossed the snow into fantastic and weird masses on the right and left, and cleared great spaces where he knew the partridge-berry would be ready with a tiny scarlet glow to light ...

— Saxe Holm's Stories • Helen Hunt Jackson

... means poor sport. It is the most common kind practised in the United States, because the squirrel is the most common game. In that country it takes the place that snipe or partridge shooting holds in England. In my opinion it is a sport superior to either of these last, and the game, when killed, is not much less in value. Good fat squirrel can be cooked in a variety of ways, and many people ...

— The Hunters' Feast - Conversations Around the Camp Fire • Mayne Reid

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