rooklet
nounEtymology From rook + -let.
1
A little rook (type of bird).
- […] and a thud at the foot of the tree, would tell of the premature decease of a promising rooklet.1881, Hannah Jane Locker-Lampson, What the Blackbird Said: A Story in Four Chirps, page 43:
- […] barrel of my rifle vainly attempting to draw a bead upon the swinging rooklet, until everything becomes blurred and blotted, […]The Sportswoman's Library (volume 1)