Pigeon Breasted - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: pigeon breastedPigeon breasted
Having a breast like a pigeon the sternum being so prominent as to constitute a deformity chicken breasted...
Pigeons
Pigeons. Unlawfully and wilfully to 'kill, wound, or take any house dove or pigeon under such circumstances as shall not amount to larceny at common law' is, by s. 23 of the (English) Larceny Act, 1861, punishable 'on conviction before a justice of the peace' by fine up to 2l., over and above the value of the bird, and though the owner be compensated and satisfied, any other person may prosecute, see Cotterill v. Penn, (1935) 51 TLR 459, and LQR (1935), p. 60, in which a member of the 'National Homing Union' prosecuted. As to cruelty to pigeons, see (English) Protection of Animals Act, 1911, s. 15, as amended by the Protection of Animals Act, 1927....
Breast deep
Deep as from the breast to the feet as high as the breast...
Breasted
Having a breast used in composition with qualifying words in either a literal or a metaphorical sense as a single breasted coat...
Breasting
The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circumference and prevents the escape of the water until it has spent its force upon the wheel See Breast wheel...
Double breasted
Folding or lapping over on the breast with a row of buttons and buttonholes on each side as a double breasted coat...
Single breasted
Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning and having buttons on one edge only as a single breasted coast...
Gyro pigeon
A flying object simulating a pigeon in flight when projected from a spring trap It is used as a flying target in shooting matches...
passenger pigeon
A once common wild pigeon of North America Ectopistes migratorius now extinct It was so called on account of its extensive migrations...
Pigeon livered
Pigeon hearted...
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