ˈheath-poult
Also -polt, -powt.
= heath-bird; more spec. the female or young.
| 1678 Ray Willughby's Ornith., The Merlin..They fly also Heath-pouts with it. 1687 Lond. Gaz. No. 2263/4 It is His Majesties Will and Pleasure, That no Person do..presume to Hawk at any Heath-Poult, in any year before the 20th day of July. 1825 Sporting Mag. XVI. 422 [He] had the good fortune..to get 16 shots at heath-poults, or black game. 1884 Jefferies Red Deer ii. 33 Heath-poults, the female of black game, fly like a great partridge. 1887 Pall Mall G. 4 Oct. 5/1 The young heath-poults are at first extremely tender creatures. |