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old English carrier en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of old English Carrier.
In the Antwerp district was found a large type of pigeon, based on the blood of the old English carrier pigeon taken to Belgium by English fishermen and on the Dragoon, big and heavy wattled, a pigeon that reached maturity very early and at the age of a year was said to fly successfully the longest distances.
1961, J. W. Langstone, Making a plan for racing long-distance pigeons, page 28:In the body and the shoulders, the Grooters clearly showed the old English carrier ancestry.
2013, Carl Naether, The Book Of The Racing Pigeon, →ISBN:
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