old english carrier
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.23 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of old English Carrier.
noun
Example Sentences
- "In the Antwerp district was found a large type of pigeon, based on the blood of the old English carrier pigeon taken to Belgium by English fishermen and on the Dragoon, big and heavy wattled, a pigeon that reached maturity very early and at the age of a year was said to fly successfully the longest distances."
- "In the body and the shoulders, the Grooters clearly showed the old English carrier ancestry."
- "I feel that I hurt the feelings of no Carrier fancier, when I state that the show Carrier, the old English Carrier, is not one of the most popular varieties."
- "Even in recent times the best lofts in Antwerp house pigeons still whose general type strongly suggests the old English Dragoon and whose wing and shoulder conformations suggest the old English Carrier."
- "The Antwerp pigeons were of a larger type, strong, and in their wattles showed a good deal of the old English Carrier or Dragon crosses used by the Antwerp school many years before."