Dorking


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Dorking

(ˈdɔːkɪŋ)
n
(Breeds) a heavy breed of domestic fowl
[C19: after Dorking, town in Surrey]
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Noun1.Dorking - an English breed of large domestic fowl having five toes (the hind toe doubled)Dorking - 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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References in classic literature ?
He has got a little cottage at Dorking; and he's up to his eyes in the growing of roses.
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.
Let my accents swell to Mickleham on one side, and Dorking on the other.
Clarke."--"What Clarke?" says the lawyer, dipping his pen in the ink.--"Susan Clarke, Markis o' Granby, Dorking," says my father; "she'll have me, if I ask.
About five miles from Dorking, looking over the Weald."
Now, you remember the sudden end of the engagement between the Honourable Miss Miles and Colonel Dorking. Only two days before the wedding, there was a paragraph in the MORNING POST to say that it was all off.
"Said 'e was going to Dorking if the High Road was good enough.
In our domestic animals, if any part, or the whole animal, be neglected and no selection be applied, that part (for instance, the comb in the Dorking fowl) or the whole breed will cease to have a nearly uniform character.
The Dorking Town Crier joined in the community event too and of course there was an appearance from the Dorking Cockerel.
England's first carbon neutral vineyard hotel opens next month at the country's largest single wine-producing estate in Dorking, Surrey.
The last confirmed sighting of Mr Teshigawara was at 6.30pm at Dorking railway station, and he is thought to have been planning to take the 6.37pm train to London Victoria.
But there are antique shops to idle in and you can tour Dorking's Caves - actually a network of man-made tunnels once used for hiding smugglers' loot and holding cock fights.