rockier

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

rockier

1. comparative form of rocky: more rocky

Etymology 2

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."

Anagrams

• corkier