day-dawn.
/ˈdeɪdɔː/, U.S. /ˈdeɪˌdɔ/, Scottish English /ˈdedɔ/ Scottish.
= day-dawn n.
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > dawn > [noun]
aristc825
dawingc900
dayeOE
day-rimOE
day-redOE
mornOE
lightOE
lightingOE
dawning1297
day-rowa1300
grekinga1300
uprista1300
dayninga1325
uprisingc1330
sun arisingc1350
springc1380
springingc1380
day-springa1382
morrowingc1384
dayingc1400
daylighta1425
upspring1471
aurora1483
sky1515
orienta1522
breaking of the day1523
daybreak1530
day-peep1530
morrow dayc1530
peep of the morning1530
prick of the day?1533
morning1535
day-breaking1565
creek1567
sunup1572
breach of the day1579
break of day or morn1584
peep of day1587
uprise1594
dawna1616
day-dawn1616
peep of dawn1751
strike of day1790
skreigh1802
sunbreak1822
day-daw1823
screech1829
dayclean1835
sun dawn1835
first light1838
morning-red1843
piccaninny sun1846
piccaninny daylightc1860
gloaming1873
glooming1877
sparrow-fart1886
crack1887
sun-spring1900
piccaninny dawn1936
1823 W. Tennant Cardinal Beaton 28 We'll better slip awa' soon to our beds the night that we may rise with the day-daw.
1864 W. D. Latto Tammas Bodkin xii. 117 A cadger belangin' Dundee..had forgaithered wi' the bass-fiddler an' him at day-daw.
1912 D. McKie Fables frae French 53 At early day-daw, cam' alang the road, In search o' vivers, an auld-farrant Tod.
1983 W. L. Lorimer & R. L. C. Lorimer New Test. in Scots App. 451 Gin day-daw he wis back i the Temple.
2017 M. Marenich in Lallans 91 41 Aftentimes, on a simmer mornin, I rise at day-daw an slip out ti the corn-parks.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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