curwilletn.
dialect.
A local name for the Sanderling ( Calidris arenaria), a bird of the snipe family.
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1674 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 90 The Sanderling or Curwillet, so called about Pensans.
1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. iii. i. v. ix. 303 The Sanderling, called also Curwillet about the Pensance in Cornwal.
1804 T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds II. 1 (heading) Sanderling. Towillee, or Curwillet.
1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 195 Curwillet, Cornwall, a name given to the Sanderling from its cry.
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