moorfowl
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Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]moorfowl (plural moorfowl or moorfowls)
- The red grouse.
- 1902 January 3, “A Smuggling Adventure”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record[1], volume 4, number 22, page 692:
- It was overgrown by enormous beds of reeds, in which moorfowl, water-hens, and coots abounded […]