"old English carrier" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "old English carriers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "old English carrier (plural old English carriers)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "old English Carrier"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1961, J. W. Langstone, Making a plan for racing long-distance pigeons, page 28",
          "text": "In the Antwerp district was found a large type of pigeon, based on the blood of the old English carrier pigeon taken to Belgium by English fishermen and on the Dragoon, big and heavy wattled, a pigeon that reached maturity very early and at the age of a year was said to fly successfully the longest distances.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Carl Naether, The Book Of The Racing Pigeon",
          "text": "In the body and the shoulders, the Grooters clearly showed the old English carrier ancestry.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of old English Carrier"
      ],
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    }
  ],
  "word": "old English carrier"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "old English carriers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "old English carrier (plural old English carriers)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        {
          "word": "old English Carrier"
        }
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      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1961, J. W. Langstone, Making a plan for racing long-distance pigeons, page 28",
          "text": "In the Antwerp district was found a large type of pigeon, based on the blood of the old English carrier pigeon taken to Belgium by English fishermen and on the Dragoon, big and heavy wattled, a pigeon that reached maturity very early and at the age of a year was said to fly successfully the longest distances.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Carl Naether, The Book Of The Racing Pigeon",
          "text": "In the body and the shoulders, the Grooters clearly showed the old English carrier ancestry.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of old English Carrier"
      ],
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