turbit

turbit
/terr"bit/, n.
one of a breed of domestic pigeons having a stout, roundish body, a short head and beak, and a ruffled breast and neck.
[1680-90; var. of TURBOT; appar. because, like the fish, the bird is toplike in outline]

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