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Etymology

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From the town of Dorking in England.

Noun

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Dorking fowl (plural Dorking fowls)

  1. One of a breed of large-bodied domestic fowls, having five toes, or the hind toe double.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Dorking fowl”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)