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n. (context baseball slang English) a ball which falls over the infielders' heads for a hit as if it were a bird shot by a hunter
Usage examples of "dead bird".
Now they all gathered around Whandall and the Ropewalkers and the dead bird.
And, moreover, the thing was wholly against nature, and the laws of god and man were annulled thereby: since never before, in all history or fable, had a dead bird taken flight from the kingdom of Ustaim.
With the dawn I descended the tower and looked for wreckage upon the rocks, but what I found was only this: a strange dead bird whose hue was as of the azure sky, and a single shattered spar, of a whiteness greater than that of the wave-tips or of the mountain snow.
Seeing her sister's shocked face, Domaris relented a little, taking the dead bird from Deoris's hands and laying it aside.
Ortnar was a strong swimmer and he reached the dead bird first, seizing it by the wing and spinning it about in the water.
If you throw a dead bird into the air it will describe a graceful parabola, exactly as physics books say it should, then come to rest on the ground and stay there.
His digits were feeble and tender compared to the thick horned toes of the dead bird, but a few tentative scrapes exposed the underlying structure.
She looked past him and spoke to the open fields and the big dead bird.
He put his arms about the neck of the dead bird, laying his cheek against that fierce, whitish-yellow beak, and he wept.
The gatherers brought a dead bird in with them and gave it to Halfbeard, who passed it to Jemmy and Willametta.