单词 | heather-bleater |
释义 | heather-bleatern. Scottish and northern dialect. = heather-bleat n. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.?1590 |
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