rockier

English

Adjective

rockier

  1. comparative form of rocky: more rocky

Noun

rockier (plural rockiers)

  1. (UK, dialect, archaic) A small blue dove.
    • 1887, Edwin Lester Linden Arnold, Bird Life in England, page 182:
      Gilbert White writes, "I have consulted a sportsman who tells me that […] often there are amongst them little parties of small blue doves which he calls rockiers. The food of these numberless migrants was beechmast and some acorns."

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