pigeon

To pluck; fleece; strip of money by the tricks of gambling.

Any bird of the family Columbidæ (which see for technical characters); a dove. ; ;

A simpleton to be swindled; a gull: opposed to rook. See stool-pigeon.

A toy consisting of a light propeller-wheel, which, on being made to revolve rapidly by means of a string wound about a shaft on which it rests, rises in the air in a short flight.

To pluck; to fleece; to swindle by tricks in gambling.

Any bird of the order Columbæ, of which numerous species occur in nearly all parts of the world.

An unsuspected victim of sharpers; a gull.

an Australian passerine bird (Graucalus melanops); — called also black-faced crow.

any one of numerous species of Old World pigeons belonging to the family Treronidæ.

any one of the large Asiatic fruit pigeons of the genus Carpophada.