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rockiers

rockiers is the plural of rockier.

Meaning of rockier

Noun

rockier (plural rockiers)

  1. (UK, archaic, dialectal) A small blue dove.
    • Gilbert White writes, "I have consulted a sportsman who tells me that […] often there are amongst them little parties of small blue doves which he calls rockiers. The food of these numberless migrants was beechmast and some acorns."1887, Edwin Lester Linden Arnold, Bird Life in England, page 182

Questions about rockiers

What is rockiers the plural of?
Rockiers is the plural of rockier.

Words near rockiers in the dictionary

  1. rockhounding
  2. rockhounds
  3. rockhouse
  4. rockhouses
  5. rockier
  6. rockiers
  7. Rockies
  8. rockiest
  9. rockified
  10. rockifies
  11. rockify

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