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Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck
Answer for the clue "Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck ", 6 letters:
cushat
Word definitions for cushat in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context Geordie or informal English) A pigeon, wood pigeon or ring dove.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck [syn: wood pigeon , ringdove , Columba palumbus ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ringdove \Ring"dove`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A European wild pigeon ( Columba palumbus ) having a white crescent on each side of the neck, whence the name. Called also wood pigeon , and cushat .
Usage examples of cushat.
But couch where we might, no Cushat ever came near our insidious lair.
As if the branch on which he had been sitting were broken, away then went the crashing Cushat through the intermingling sprays.
The sudden whirr of a cushat is an incident, or the leaping of a lamb among the broom.
When she spoke, it was with the mildness of a cushat dove addressing another cushat dove from whom it was hoping to borrow money.
He was in the midst of small birds who made a cheerful twittering from the greening boughs, cushats too were busy, and the thickets were full of friendly beasts.
But there were no small birds, only large things like cushats and hawks, which made a movement in the high branches.
There was a sleepy muttering of cushats to the south of him, and then, with a clatter which made him jump, the birds rose in a flock and flew across the valley.
As soon as the cushats began to fly from the woods to the fields, and the hillsides were streaked with grey motes of light, Big Harry and his son rowed into the cove, and then Little Harry went to catch the old mare on the moor.
When she spoke, it was with the mildness of a cushat dove addressing another cushat dove from whom it was hoping to borrow money.
His manner, which had had perhaps almost too much in it of the mediaeval earl dealing with a scurvy knave or varlet, changed, taking on the suggestion of a cushat dove calling to its mate.
As if that were not to be enough for anyone but little headway, if any, was made in solving the wasnottobe crime cunundrum when a child of Maam, Festy King, of a family long and honourably associated with the tar and feather industries, who gave an address in old plomansch Mayo of the Saxons in the heart of a foulfamed potheen district, was subsequently haled up at the Old Bailey on the calends of Mars, under an incompatibly framed indictment of both the counts (from each equinoxious points of view, the one fellow's fetch being the other follow's person) that is to see, flying cushats out of his ouveralls and making fesses immodst his forces on the field.