rockier
English
editEtymology 1
editAdjective
editrockier
- comparative form of rocky: more rocky
Etymology 2
editNoun
editrockier (plural rockiers)
- (UK, dialect, archaic) A small blue dove.
- 1887, Edwin Lester Linden Arnold, Bird Life in England, page 182:
- Gilbert White writes, "I have consulted a sportsman who tells me that […] often there are amongst them little parties of small blue doves which he calls rockiers. The food of these numberless migrants was beechmast and some acorns."