blackcock
(ˈblækkɒk)
The male of the black grouse or black game.
| 1427 Scot. Acts Jas. I (1597) §108 Patricks, plovers, black-cockes. 1753 Stewart's Trial App. 21 He would make black cocks of them, before they entered into possession, by which the deponent understood shooting them. 1815 Scott Ld. of Isles v. xiii, The black-cock deem'd it day, and crew. 1832 Proc. Berw. Nat. Club I. 5 The blackcock (Tetrao tetrix) was heard harshly calling to his mates. |