noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
carrier pigeon
clay pigeon shooting
homing pigeon
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
carrier
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The first correct entry to be drawn at random will be notified by phone and the Guitarist carrier pigeon will do the rest.
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They found the empty dovecotes where he kept his carrier pigeons , his way of beating the phone taps.
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During the war, peregrines were declared a pest because they used to attack carrier pigeons and prevent messages reaching their destination.
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The tower provided shore accommodation for keepers and kept in communication with the lighthouse by means of flagstaff signals and carrier pigeons .
clay
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Anyway no more clay pigeons for Candless.
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It's used once a fortnight for clay pigeon shoots.
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So the challenge was extended to include a clay pigeon shooting match at Gorebridge between two teams of four.
fancier
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Robert is a pigeon fancier and a member of the Johnstone Social Flying Club.
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Although this usage has almost disappeared, it is still visible in pigeon fanciers .
passenger
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The passenger pigeon needs no protection.
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But the passenger pigeon , as we now know this bird, was a mixed blessing for the Pilgrims.
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The original passenger pigeon was driven into extinction from a population that reached almost ten million at one point in time.
shooting
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So the challenge was extended to include a clay pigeon shooting match at Gorebridge between two teams of four.
wood
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Regular visitors include two wood pigeons , seven collar doves, innumerable rooks and jackdaws.
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She showed Gerda her collection of captured pets, including two wood pigeons and a reindeer.
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Surrounded by woodland it seems set in a pocket of secluded spaciousness, watched only by wood pigeons and squirrels.
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Squab are also larger than wild doves or wood pigeons , therefore cooking times will vary significantly.
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From far away came the call of a wood pigeon .
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Charles was aware of bird song, chiff-chaff, blackbird, and a crooning wood pigeon .
■ VERB
feed
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All her life she fed pigeons .
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They wandered parks and gardens and fed already overfed white pigeons in the Plaza de América.
home
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Generally speaking, racing / homing pigeons will eventually return home.
keep
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They were thin and tasted of very little but would certainly keep the pigeon going, for now.
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They found the empty dovecotes where he kept his carrier pigeons , his way of beating the phone taps.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pigeon/horse etc fancier
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Although this usage has almost disappeared, it is still visible in pigeon fanciers .
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Robert is a pigeon fancier and a member of the Johnstone Social Flying Club.
put/set the cat among the pigeons
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But for the last twenty-five years, economists have criticized Keynesian stimuli the way pigeons criticize statues.
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But the passenger pigeon , as we now know this bird, was a mixed blessing for the Pilgrims.
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Commissioning the Royal Philharmonic is likely to set the cat among the pigeons.
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It must be Jack again, shooting pigeons.
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Some men thought more about their whippets or their pigeons - they thought nowt of slinging the wife out on the street.
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There were two schools of thought about the Trafalgar Square pigeons.
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What was I supposed to do, look at the pigeons?