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单词 heather-bleater
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heather-bleatern.

Brit. /ˈhɛðəbliːtə/, U.S. /ˈhɛðərˌblidər/, Scottish English /ˈhɛθərblitər/
Forms: Also heather-blut(t)er, heather-bluiter, heather-blooter; corrupted earn-bleater, hammer-bleat, -er.
Etymology: as heather-bleat n., with second element conformed to agent-nouns in -er suffix1.
Scottish and northern dialect.
= heather-bleat n.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > genus Gallinago > galinago gallinago (common snipe)
snitec725
snipec1325
brewea1475
mire-snipea1525
heather-bleater?1590
jack snipe1664
earn-bleater1754
weather-blate1802
full snipe1824
heather-bleat1824
shad-bird1879
gutter-snipe-
?1590–1 J. Burel Passage of Pilgremer i, in Poems sig. O The Hobbie and the Hedder bluter.
1792 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. II. 72 (Jam.) A bird, which the people here call a hether blutter.
1820 W. Scott Monastery I. iv. 151 What saw she in the bog, then..forbye moor-cocks and heather-blutters?
1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Heather-bleater..It is also called mire-bleater and gutter-snipe.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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