Definitions for carrier-pigeon

carrier-pigeon carrier pigeon

Carrier-Pigeon is a 14 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 827 anagrams from letters in carrier-pigeon (-aceegiinoprrr).

Definitions for carrier-pigeon

noun

  1. one of a breed of domestic pigeons having a large wattle around the base of the beak.
  2. a homing pigeon trained to carry messages.

Origin of carrier-pigeon

First recorded in 1640-50

Examples for carrier-pigeon

But you might as well have tried to wander a carrier pigeon.

Once on her window-sill Harmony found among the pigeons a carrier pigeon with a brass tube fastened to its leg.

The incident of the carrier pigeon was too fresh in his mind for that.

But she was thinking about the carrier pigeon, and Victoria's advice.

He was looking at his copy of the code message he had taken from the carrier pigeon.

Has not the carrier pigeon an infinitely better sense of locality than we have?

These notes he intended to despatch by carrier pigeon, the bird being with them, imprisoned in a large kettle.

A carrier pigeon flies home, and so we say it "knows" the way.

But a carrier pigeon would have no such difficulty in returning.

The carrier pigeon preened itself comfortably on the edge of the washstand.

Word Value for carrier-pigeon
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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