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Stockdove

Webster's Dictionary

(n.) A common European wild pigeon (Columba aenas), so called because at one time believed to be the stock of the domestic pigeon, or, according to some, from its breeding in the stocks, or trunks, of trees.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Stockdove'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/stockdove.html. 1828.