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sea-swallow
1. = flying fish. [After L. hirundo (Pliny).]
1598Florio, Accola, a sea swallow, or a sea reare-mouse. 1601Holland Pliny ix. xxvi. I. 249 The sea Swallow flieth: and it resembleth in all points the bird so called. 1611Cotgr., Arondelle de mer, the flying fish called the sea Bat, or sea Swallow. 1664Hubert Catal. Rarities (1665) 19 A great flying-fish or Sea Swallow. 1740R. Brookes Art of Angling ii. liii. 171 The Flying-Fish or Sea-Swallow..is very common between the Tropicks. 1844Linsley Fishes Connecticut in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. XLVII. 59 Dactylopterus volitans, Cuv., Sea Swallow, Long Island Sound.
2. a. A name for any one of the terns (from their general resemblance to swallows). b. The stormy petrel, Procellaria pelagica. c. An edible swiftlet of the genus Collocalia, found in south-east Asia.
1647Hexham i. App., A Sea-swallow, Een Zee-swaluwe. 1668Charleton Onomast. 90 Hirundo Marina, the Sea-Swallow. a1672Willughby Ornith. (1676) 269 Larus Piscator Aldrov... The lesser Sea-Swallow. 1734E. Albin Birds II. Pl. 88 The greater Sea Swallow. 1831M. Russell Anc. & Mod. Egypt. xi. §3 (1832) 484 The Sterna Nilotica, or Egyptian sea-swallow. 1852Macgillivray Brit. Birds V. 460 Thalassidroma pelagica. The Common Storm-Petrel... Sea Swallow. 1887Hall Caine Deemster vii, The sea swallow shot over him too, with its low mournful cry. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 310/2 Animals of economic value [in Borneo] are the sea-swallows, whose edible nests are prized as the best in the archipelago.
3. The trepang or bêche-de-mer.[= Du. zeezwaluw; but the second element represents the Malay name swālā.] 1802Naval Chron. VIII. 380 Sea swallow (called beach de mar by the Portuguese, and trepong by the Malays). |