skitty cock

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skitty cock - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Skitty \Skit"ty\, n. [Cf. Skittish.] (Zool.)
     A rail; as, the water rail (called also skitty cock, and
     skitty coot); the spotted crake (Porzana maruetta), and
     the moor hen. [Prov. Eng.]
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