Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A male turkey.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A turkey-cock. Also called
gobble-cock and turkey-gobbler. - noun An automatic bucket the halves of which separate at the bottom when lowered and close when a strain is put upon the hoisting-chain, digging into the material to be loaded. When the strain is removed the weight of the load causes the bucket to open.
- noun One who swallows in haste; a greedy eater; a gormandizer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A turkey cock; a bubbling Jock.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun slang A
turkey . - noun One who
eats food veryquickly , withoutdecorum .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun male turkey
- noun a hasty eater who swallows large mouthfuls
Etymologies
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Examples
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I carry a hawk call, that can really light 'em up, and one morning in gobbler season there was a single Canada goose flying up the valley and calling, and a gobbler was answering it's calls, so I now carry a goose call as well.
Would a duck call or deer call work to get a turkey to shock gobble? 2010
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I carry a hawk call, that can really light 'em up, and one morning in gobbler season there was a single Canada goose flying up the valley and calling, and a gobbler was answering it's calls, so I now carry a goose call as well.
Would a duck call or deer call work to get a turkey to shock gobble? 2010
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Unless a gobbler is the absolute king of the woods he can be leery of other birds, and that includes your decoys.
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It seems the whole woods shake when a gobbler is gobbling just yards away.
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It seems the whole woods shake when a gobbler is gobbling just yards away.
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Practice your wood craft, 80 percent of killing a gobbler is knowing the woods you hunt and moving and setting up carefully.
I want to start spring turkey hunting and I dont know how to start out. 2009
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Practice your wood craft, 80 percent of killing a gobbler is knowing the woods you hunt and moving and setting up carefully.
I want to start spring turkey hunting and I dont know how to start out. 2009
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Calling in a gobbler is especially gratifying when you do it with a peg you've made.
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While turkey hunting on beaver island we heard and saw a nice gobbler from a distance.
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While turkey hunting on beaver island we heard and saw a nice gobbler from a distance.
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