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covey a small flock of grouse or partridge covey [′kəv·ē] (vertebrate zoology) A brood of birds. A small flock of birds of one kind, used typically of partridge and quail. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Who would chirp you to sleep, or call for you the covey of answering birds? Little Jones went one day a shooting with the gamekeeper; when happening to spring a covey of partridges near the border of that manor over which Fortune, to fulfil the wise purposes of Nature, had planted one of the game consumers, the birds flew into it, and were marked (as it is called) by the two sportsmen, in some furze bushes, about two or three hundred paces beyond Mr Allworthy's dominions. Levin knew Laska's method, wary and indefinite; he knew the place too and expected a whole covey of snipe. |
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