To pluck; fleece; strip of money by the tricks of gambling.

noun. Any bird of the family Columbidæ (which see for technical characters); a dove. ; ;

noun. A simpleton to be swindled; a gull: opposed to rook. See stool-pigeon.

noun. A toy consisting of a light propeller-wheel, which, on being made to revolve rapidly by means of a string wound about a shaft on which it rests, rises in the air in a short flight.

transitive verb. To pluck; to fleece; to swindle by tricks in gambling.

noun. Any bird of the order Columbæ, of which numerous species occur in nearly all parts of the world.

noun. An unsuspected victim of sharpers; a gull.

noun. an Australian passerine bird (Graucalus melanops); -- called also black-faced crow.

noun. any one of numerous species of Old World pigeons belonging to the family Treronidæ.

noun. any one of the large Asiatic fruit pigeons of the genus Carpophada.

noun. the purplish black fruit of the pokeweed; also, the plant itself. See Pokeweed.

noun. an extraordinary and grotesque dialect, employed in the commercial cities of China, as the medium of communication between foreign merchants and the Chinese. Its base is English, with a mixture of Portuguese and Hindustani.

noun. a kind of foxtail grass (Setaria glauca), of some value as fodder. The seeds are eagerly eaten by pigeons and other birds.

noun. The American sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter velox or Accipiter fuscus).

noun. An old English game, in which balls were rolled through little arches.

noun. a dovecote.

noun. the seed of Cajanus Indicus; a kind of pulse used for food in the East and West Indies; also, the plant itself.

noun. the edible drupes of two West African species of Chrysobalanus (Chrysobalanus ellipticus and Chrysobalanus luteus).

noun. See under Tremex.

noun. a name in the West Indies for the wood of several very different kinds of trees, species of Dipholis, Diospyros, and Coccoloba.

noun. the flicker.

noun. The golden plover.

noun. One of several birds of the family Columbidae, which consists of more than 300 species.

noun. A person who is a target or victim of a confidence game.

verb. to deceive with a confidence game

noun. wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs

"The pulses race with "Report of cat trapped at address in Tameside", only to deflate with the note that the stool-pigeon is a regular nuisance caller."

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