Sentences with phrase «flush woodcocks»

The American cocker spaniel is descended from the English «cocking» spaniels that were used to flush woodcocks from their hiding places in the 19th century.

A very popular breed, the cocker spaniel was developed as a gundog for flushing woodcock in particular.

The larger types were the «springing spaniel» and the «field spaniel,» and the smaller, which specialized on flushing woodcock, was known as a «cocking spaniel.»

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Into this duo enters Alma (Vicky Krieps), a clumsy girl with flushed cheeks who catches Woodcock's appreciative eye when she waits on his table in the hotel restaurant of an isolated seaside town.

Slightly larger dogs became known as cockers (for the woodcocks they flushed in the field) and field spaniels, and the largest of the group became the water spaniels and springers, named for the skills they possessed.

The name cocker stems from the word «woodcock,» a type of bird the breed flushed out of fields.

The smaller «cockers» hunted woodcock while the larger littermates were used to flush, or «spring,» game.

The word «cocker» refers to the dog's hunting of woodcocks and it excelled at flushing game from heavy cover.

Used by hunters to flush out game, it specialized in retrieving quail instead of the woodcock so prevalent in England.

The English cocker was developed in the 19th century in England to flush and retrieve woodcocks from densely wooded areas.

Owners originally used the dogs for falconry, and in the 19th century they found a new purpose: flushing out woodcock, hence the name Cocker Spaniel.