Meanings
rockier1
rockier2
nounrockier (plural rockiers)
plural rockiers
- UKarchaicdialectalA small blue dove.
Gilbert White writes, "I have consulted a sportsman who tells me that […] often there are amongst them little parties of small blue doves which he calls rockiers. The food of these numberless migrants was beechmast and some acorns."
1887, Edwin Lester Linden Arnold, Bird Life in England, page 182
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