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old English Carrier

old English Carrier noun: english Carrier.

Noun (1)

old English Carrier (plural old English Carriers)

  1. English Carrier.
    • 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.1898, Frank M. Gilbert, Pigeons and All about Them, page 206
    • 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.1964, Carl Albert Naether, The book of the pigeon and of wild foreign doves, page 54

Noun (2) capitalized: old English carrier

old English carrier (plural old English carriers)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of old English Carrier.
    • 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...1961, J. W. Langstone, Making a plan for racing long-distance pigeons, page 28
    • In the body and the shoulders, the Grooters clearly showed the old English carrier ancestry.2013, Carl Naether, The Book Of The Racing Pigeon, →ISBN

Forms of old English Carrier

pluralold English Carriers
alternative formold English carrier
pluralold English carriers

Questions about old English Carrier

What does old English Carrier mean?
Old English Carrier means english Carrier.
What part of speech is old English Carrier?
Old English Carrier is a noun.
What is the plural of old English Carrier?
The plural of old English Carrier is old English Carriers.

Words near old English Carrier in the dictionary

  1. Old East Slavic
  2. Old East Slavonic
  3. Old Egyptian
  4. Old Elvish
  5. Old English
  6. old English Carrier
  7. old English Carriers
  8. Old English Game
  9. Old English Sheepdog
  10. Old English Sheepdogs
  11. old enough to bleed, old enough to breed

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