Partridge

Definitions

1. Any bird of a number of genera in the family Phasianidae, notably in the genera Perdix and Alectoris.
2. A surname.
3. A minor city in Reno County, Kansas, United States, named after the bird.
4. The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.
   uncountable
5. A type of cannon charge composed of several missiles fired all together, similar to langrage or case-shot. Also a large cannon that shoots stones.
   obsolete

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Examples

“On the first day of Christmas, my true love⟳ sent to me a partridge in a pear tree.”

“...and the loudest sound⟳ in the lonely fields was when, adventuring too near some late brood, the partridge sought to deceive⟳ by a plaintive cry⟳ and seeming helplessness, crossing before your very feet, till, when drawn to a sufficient distance, suddenly the air vibrated to the flutter of her active pinions.”

“Mrs Partridge, upon this, immediately fell into a fury, and discharged the trencher on which she was eating, at the head of poor Jenny […]”

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