Definition of "landrail" [landrail]

• The corncrake, Crex crex. (noun)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "Dispassionately considered, the landrail should be a bird that a man could scarcely miss on the first occasion of his handling a gun; in cold fact, it often survives two barrels apparently untouched."
• "Of the smaller birds there is the gallinetta, a kind of landrail, the curse of hunters shooting wild duck, their wretched screech warning every bird in the district."
• "It was of a dark-brown colour, and spotted like the landrail; the tail feathers were nine in number, and twelve inches long."