Meaning of carrier pigeon | Babel Free

Definitions

A domestic pigeon which transports attached messages or very small parcels from the place where it is released to a familiar destination.

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Examples

“At length, after wheeling his toothpick slowly round and round in the air, as if it were a carrier pigeon just thrown up, he suddenly made a dart at the drawing,”

“Once on her window-sill Harmony found among the pigeons a carrier pigeon with a brass tube fastened to its leg.”

“Two days after the first U.S. bridgehead had been thrown back at Rapido (see p. 23), a U.S. carrier pigeon winged wearily into its home base in Italy. Clipped to its leg was this German sneer: "Herewith your message pigeon is returned. We have plenty to eat."”

“For the second time in four months, prison guards foiled an attempt to smuggle a cellphone into a prison by carrier pigeon.”

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