| 单词 | eagle fisher |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseagle fisher eagle fisher n. chiefly Scottish any eagle or other bird of prey that catches fish (cf. fish-eagle n. at fish n.1 Compounds 2b); spec. the osprey, Pandion haliaetus. [In quot. 1801 after French aigle-pécheur (1796 or earlier).] ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > [noun] > family Pandionidae (osprey) pygarga1398 ospreyc1450 ospring1530 water eagle1562 bone-breaker1598 ospringer?1611 ossifrage1658 fish-eagle1678 fishing hawk1694 fishing eaglea1792 eagle fisher1801 fish-hawk1808 break-bones1838 1801 Crit. Rev. 31 App. 558 The author [sc. Daudin]..divides, under six principal titles, the 151 species described... These are; 1. Eagles, properly so called. 2. Eagle fishers [Fr. Aigles-Pécheurs]. 3. The goss and spar hawks. [etc.]. 1849 C. St. John Tour Sutherland I. ii. 24 A shepherd..who told us of a nest of the ‘Eagle Fisher’, as he called it. 1900 Zoologist 4 97 He saw or heard of an Osprey in May; other correspondents record two of these splendid Eagle-fishers in October. 1962 G. Waterston in P. Brown & G. Waterston Return of Osprey ii. 80 Records, and traditional stories..which often confused the osprey with the white-tailed eagle—both being classified as ‘Eagle Fishers’. 2006 D. J. Taylor Kept (2008) i. 6 Take these ospreys, that the people here call eagle fishers. They don't come to Loch an Eilein crag no more. < as lemmas |
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