Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

table bird

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.49 in modern English

Syllables: table bird
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A chicken or other poultry raised for meat (as opposed to laying eggs); a wild bird hunted for its meat.

Example Sentences

"Coordinate term: layer"
"Among table birds, the partridge is so very abundant in some localities that it seems like butchery to kill them by the half dozen."
"[…] she ran chickens on quite a big scale now, and made a few pounds every month from eggs and table birds;"
"The leader called, himself unfortunately plump as a table bird, ‘Let them listen to the crying-out of the empty guts of the workers.’"

Inflected Forms

table birds (plural)

Questions

What does table bird mean?: A chicken or other poultry raised for meat (as opposed to laying eggs); a wild bird hunted for its meat.

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