blue pigeon

noun

Any member of the genus Alectroenas of the pigeon family.

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Meanings

nounblue pigeon (plural blue pigeons)

plural blue pigeons

  1. Any member of the genus Alectroenas of the pigeon family.
  2. slangnauticalThe lead used for sounding.
    1 more example

    "Now I'll learn you something Long Jack can't," shouted Tom Platt, as from a locker by the stern he produced a battered deep-sea lead hollowed at one end, smeared the hollow from a saucer full of mutton tallow, and went forward. "I'll learn you how to fly the Blue Pigeon. Shooo!" […] The lead sung a deep droning song as Tom Platt whirled it round and round.

    1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous
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