Crossword-Solution: CAPERCALLY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Capercally | n. | A species of grouse (Tetrao uragallus) of large size and fine flavor, found in northern Europe and formerly in Scotland; -- called also cock of the woods. |
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| capercaillie | 6 answers |
| European bird | 64 answers |
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The old plural of Eye.
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Sentences with CAPERCALLY (3)
CAPERCALLY, or CAPERKALLY,[1] a bird's name commonly derived from the Gaelic _capull_, a horse (or, more properly, a mare), and _coille_, a wood, but with greater likelihood, according to the opinion of Dr M'Lauchlan, from _cabher_, an old man (and, by metaphor, an old bird), and _coille_, the name of _Tetrao urogallus_, the largest of the grouse family (_Tetraonidae_), and a species which was formerly indigenous to Scotland and Ireland.
Kitchen-middens of England, Ireland and Denmark reveal the existence of the capercally, _Tetrao urogallus_, and of the great auk or gare-fowl, _Alca impennis_; both species long since vanished from those countries.
Both these birds have much in common with their larger congener the capercally and its eastern representative.