see also: Carrier Pigeon
Noun
carrier pigeon (plural carrier pigeons)
- A domestic pigeon which transports attached messages or very small parcels from the place where it is released to a familiar destination.
- 1944 Feb. 7, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,791300,00.html World Battlefronts: Men at War—The Bird]," Time:
- Two days after the first U.S. bridgehead had been thrown back at Rapido (see p. 23), a U.S. carrier pigeon winged wearily into its home base in Italy. Clipped to its leg was this German sneer: "Herewith your message pigeon is returned. We have plenty to eat."
- 2009 July 3, "Brazil: A Cellphone Carrier Is Thwarted ↗," New York Times (retrieved 5 Dec 2011)
- For the second time in four months, prison guards foiled an attempt to smuggle a cellphone into a prison by carrier pigeon.
- 1944 Feb. 7, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,791300,00.html World Battlefronts: Men at War—The Bird]," Time:
- French: pigeon voyageur
- German: Brieftaube
- Russian: почто́вый го́лубь
- homer
- homing pigeon
- racer
- racing pigeon
Carrier Pigeon
Noun
carrier pigeon (plural carrier pigeons)
- Alternative form of carrier pigeon
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