Torbie vs Corbie - What's the difference?
torbie | corbie |
A raven or crow.
* 1825', Basil Hall, journal entry quoted in '''1837 , , J. G. Lockhart (editor), ''Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart.'', in ''The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott , Volume 7,
* 1899 , , The Moor-song'', ''Grey Weather ,
* 1963 , John Harrington Cox (editor), 6: The Three Ravens (Child, No. 26)'', ''Folk-Songs of the South ,
Either of two moth species of genus .
* 2007 , J. B. Kirkpatrick, Chapter 5: Sheep and nature on the run country'', Jamie Kirkpatrick, Kerry Bridle (editors), ''People, Sheep and Nature Conservation: The Tasmanian Experience ,
As an adjective torbie
is .As a noun corbie is
a raven or crow.corbie
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Alternative forms
* corbyNoun
(en noun)page 417,
- From parrots we got to corbies , or ravens, and he told us with infinite humour a story of a certain tame bird of this description, whose constant delight was to do mischief, and to plague all mankind and beastkind.
page 133,
- And with them were some lang-gowned men who kenned the stars and would come out o' nights to talk to the deer and the corbies in their ain tongue.
page 31,
- In the "Twa Corbies'" of Child it is the knight that is slain and one ' corbie is to sit on his "hause-bane" and the other is to pick out his eyes. In the West Virginia variants it is the horse that is slain, whose eyes the crows are going to pluck out.
page 158,
- The eastern quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus ), a species believed to be extinct on mainland Australia, is common in the run and front country, where it consumes corbie grubs and cockchafers, among slightly larger prey and carrion.