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Pedigrees
and Ages of all Greyhounds, with the Names of their owners, and the owners of their sires and dams, must be registered in the Stud Book…
Port
Raising.-Driving on a partner's stone in a straight line up to or near the tee. Rebutting.-A stroke delivered with full power, in order to…
Pase – Pad
Action of passing the bull from one side to another by using the muleta, or small cape. He who ends the bull (if necessary, after the…
Pole-hook
The hook at the top side of a coach pole on which the main bar is hung. Pole-pieces.-Wide leather double straps which in broughams…
Peregrine
Falco peregrinus or gentilis. The adult colouring is blue-grey upon the back, ashengrey upon the breast, barred with black. The young are…
Perch – Petty Singles
The pole connecting the fore and hind part of a carriage. Pickaxe team. -A team consisting of two wheelers and one leader. Also called a…
Putter
A club with either a wooden or metal head, used on the putting-green. Quarter-shot.-A shot played with a quarter swing.
Pitch – Pink
The highest point to which a hawk rises when waiting on. The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its quarry has put in.
Point-rider
One who does not ride as the fox and hounds go, but to points at which he hopes to pick up the hounds. Rabbit-earth.-A burrow, to which a…
Plateau
Other attempts followed till, in 1786, the highest point was gained by Jacques Balmat and Michel Paccard, who took De Saussure to the top…
Plattje
A rock of a slabby formation. Refuge.-[See CABANE.] Roches Moutonnees. - Rocks rounded by glacier action.
Prairie Chicken
Of all American grouse, the species of ground grouse, found as a rule away from woodland, and com- Henry Stannard PRAIRIE CHICKEN. monly…
Pronghorn
The prongbuck (Antilocapra americana) is almost universally known in America as "antelope."; yet it is, in reality, not an antelope at all…
Punting and Punts
No pastime on the river Thames has increased so much of late years as punting; and the evolution of the punt, from the slow, heavy, clumsy…
Process III (Laying the bitten gut under)
Laying the bitten gut under the hook, hold it there with the forefinger and thumb of the left hand, and beginning near the head in open…
Process III (Before whipping to the tail)
Before whipping to the tail, bind in body materials and ribbing projecting to the right. Whip to the tail, wind the body material, secure…
Process IV
Commence at the middle and whip to near the head, tie in rolled reverse or Tweed upright wings as before described, bind on the hackle…
Piolet – Paris-Madrid Race
A small cliff or perpendicular obstruction in a gully. An iron stanchion with a ring at its head, to which a rope can be attached.
Paris-Marseilles Race – Palmer
i. 135 Parkway Motor Race (U.S.A.), i. 141 Petrol carriage (New & Mayne), 1. 130 Phœnix car, i. 130 i. 153 Red Flag Act, 1. 127, 155…
Prof
E. H., iii. 354 - Sir Hyde, i. 45 Parr, J. W., i. 132 Parsons, H., ii. 61 Partridge, iii. 283-292 Arabian Chucker (Caccabis melancephala)…
Panhard – Peard
M., i. 128, 129 Panin (skater), iv. 167 iii. 136, 144 "Papingo," i. 93, 94
Pearson – Peregrine Falcon
Alec., ii. 240 T. W., ii. 241 Peccary (Dicotyles laiatus, D. torquatus), iii. 293-4
Pheasant
iii. 297-310 Blood (Ithagenes cruentus), iii. 307 (I. geoffroyi), iii. 307 -- (I. s'nensis), iii. 307 Bulwer's (Lobiophasis bulweri), iii…
Pereira – Phillips
Galotti, i. 418 Perfect (Foxhound), ii. 446 H. S., iii. 392 Peterborough Show hounds), ii. 443
Physical Culture – Pigmy Hog
iii. 310-313 Piapot (Trotter), iv. 293 Pickerel (Esox nobilior), iii. 327. Common (E. fasciatus), iii. 327 - Gt. Northern (E. reticulatus)…
Pike – Plouvier
John, Voyages ana Travels, iv. 187 William, ii. 145, 146 Place (stud groom to Oliver Cromwell), ii. 436
Plover – Popinjay
iii. 346-350 American Golden (Charadrius virginicus), iii. 347 Golden (C. pluvialis) iii. 347, 350 Green (Vanellus vulgaris), iii. 347 Grey…
Porporato – Preuschen
1. 159 Portable Hatchery (pisciculture), iii. 343 John, iii. 392 Kingsclere, iii. . 415
Prevost – Pyramids
Pierre, i. 351 Prince of Wales's Prize (Bisley), iv. 42 T. E., Book of the Grayling, ii. 365