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▪ I. ˈwater-ˌswallow1 ? Obs.
[swallow n.1 Cf. G. wasserschwalbe.]
A name for the water-wagtail.
1544Turner Avium Præcip. C 7 b, κιγκλος, ἢ σεισοπυγίς, Anglice a water swallow. 1552,1668[see swallow n.1]. 1611Cotgr., Batemare, a wagtayle, or water Swallow. 1658Willsford Natures Secr. 140 The Wagtail, or Water-Swallow. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Water-Swallow, a kind of Bird.
▪ II. ˈwater-ˌswallow2
= swallow n.2 1 b.
1811in Marshall's Rev. Rep. Board Agric., Midl. 83 List of Water-swallows or Holes in the Rocks into which Streams of Water fall and disappear in and near Derbyshire. 1840Hodgson Northumb. ii. III. 327/2 note, A stratum of limestone full of water-swallow-holes. 1889Jrnl. Derbysh. Archæol. Soc. XI. 34 This valley is entirely drained by ‘water-swallows’—natural drains along the bottom, through which the surface-rills sink out of sight.
Hence † water-swallowed a., abounding in water-swallows.
1610W. Folkingham Feudigr. i. iii. 4 It would be also peruestigated, whether it [sc. the earth] be light, loose,..leane, barren, fertile, water-swallowed, soale-bound. |