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tarrock|ˈtærək|
[Of uncertain origin; the ending -ock is app. diminutive, as in puttock, etc.]
A name applied locally to various sea-birds: in the Shetland Islands, to the Arctic Tern; elsewhere to the Kittiwake, to the young of the Common Gull, and to the Common Guillemot.
1674Ray Collect. Words, Water Fowl 94 The Tarrock: Cornub: Larus cinereus Bellonii. 1678― Willughby's Ornith. 346 Bellonius his ash-coloured Gull, called in Cornwal, Tarrock. 1768Pennant Zool. II. 424 Linnæus..makes this species [winter mew] synonymous with the Larus tridactylus or Tarrock. 1771― Tour Scot. in 1769, 36 Kittiwakes, or Tarrocks. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VI. 79 It is..the tarrock, and the terne, that venture to these dreadful retreats, and claim an undisturbed possession. 1833G. Montagu's Ornith. Dict. 505 Tarrock, a name for the Gull in its immature plumage. Ibid. 508 Common Tern, Sterna hirundo. Provincial... Tarrock, or Tarret. 1880J. Skelton Crookit Meg iv. 48, I promised to get a tarrock's wing for Eppie. |