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blue pigeons

blue pigeons is the plural of blue pigeon.

Meaning of blue pigeon

Noun

blue pigeon (plural blue pigeons)

  1. Any member of the genus Alectroenas of the pigeon family.
  2. (slang) The lead used for sounding.
    • "Now I'll learn you something Long Jack can't," shouted Tom Platt, as from a locker by the stern he produced a battered deep-sea lead hollowed at one end, smeared the hollow from a saucer full of mutton tallow, and went forward. "I'll learn you how to fly the Blue Pigeon. Shooo!"
      […] The lead sung...1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous

Questions about blue pigeons

What is blue pigeons the plural of?
Blue pigeons is the plural of blue pigeon.

Words near blue pigeons in the dictionary

  1. blue peters
  2. blue petrel
  3. blue pigeon
  4. blue pigeon flyer
  5. blue pigeon flyers
  6. blue pigeons
  7. blue pill
  8. blue pilled
  9. blue pilling
  10. blue pills
  11. blue pine

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