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swartback, swarthback local.
Also 5 suerthbak, 7 swarth bag.
[ad. Icel. svartbakur (whence Norw. svartbak, Da. svartbagmaage): see swart a., swarth a. + back n.1 Cf. swabie.]
The great black-backed gull, Larus marinus.
c1450Holland Howlat 180 The Goule was a gryntar, The Suerthbak a sellerar. 1676Sterpin Descr. Fœroe 141 The Swarth bag is a great Bird like a Kite, it is white all over, but the back. 1678Ray Willughby's Ornith. 344 In the Feroe Islands it is called, The Swarth-back. 1805Barry Orkney iii. i. 304 The Great Black and White Gull..our black-backed maw, or as it is sometimes called swartback, is the largest of the gull kind in our seas. 1821Scott Pirate x, Thy foot had been on the Maiden-skerrie of Northmaven, known before but to the webbed sole of the swartback. 1821[see swabie]. |