Crossword-Solution: RINGDOVES
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Birds with bands of dark plumage partially encircling their necks | 1 answer |
| Domestic Old World birds | 1 answer |
| Old World pigeons with markings around the neck | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERAET
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greedy person
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Sentences with RINGDOVES (5)
Amongst them the ringdoves nested in hundreds, and on the steep rocks of the precipice the red-necked vultures fed their young.
The corporal then led off his band to the spot where he last saw traces of the animal, and tracked on till sundown; while Grant and myself went out pot-hunting and brought home a bag consisting of one striped eland, one saltiana antelope, four guinea-fowl, four ringdoves, and one partridge--a welcome supply, considering we were quite out of flesh.
But there was little satisfaction in this: the wild-pine leaves and the grapevine-withes supplied the rebels with water; and their plantation-grounds were the wild pineapple and the plantain-groves, and the forests, where the wild boars harbored, and the ringdoves were as easily shot as if they were militiamen.
Come, Robin, Robin, Come and kiss me now; Help it can I? with my hands Milking the cow? Ringdoves coo again, All things woo again.
Pennant informs us, that some quails migrate, and others only remove from the internal parts of the island to the coasts, (Zoology, octavo, 210.) Some of the ringdoves and stares breed here, others migrate, (ibid.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: New Yorker, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2006–2023).