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Dorking

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Dor·king  (dôrkng)
n.
A heavy-bodied domestic fowl having five toes on each foot and raised chiefly for table use.
[After Dorking, an urban district of southern England.]
Dorking [ˈdɔːkɪŋ]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Breeds) a heavy breed of domestic fowl
[after Dorking, town in Surrey]
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Noun1.DorkingDorking - an English breed of large domestic fowl having five toes (the hind toe doubled)
domestic fowl, fowl, poultry - a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl


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Begbie the gardener is to go to Dorking, and own that the Sergeant has beaten him at last.
The Moonstone by Collins, Wilkie View in context
Aurelia could have understood the feeling of a narrow-minded and conventional hen who has brought a strange, intrepid duckling into the world; but her situation was still more wonderful, for she could only compare her sensations to those of some quiet brown Dorking who has brooded an ordinary egg and hatched a bird of paradise.
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context
Let my accents swell to Mickleham on one side, and Dorking on the other.
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