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/ˈkɪldiː//ˈkɪldɪə/ The largest species of ring-plover ( Ægialitis vocifera) of North America.
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chattering plover1732
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noisy plover1785
1732 C. Mortimer in Philos. Trans. 1731–2 (Royal Soc.) 37 176 The Chattering Plover. In Virginia they are called Kildeers, from some Resemblance of their Noise to the Sound of that Word.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 214 Kildee or Chattering Plover.
a1862 H. D. Thoreau Cape Cod (1865) vii. 123 The kildeer-plover..fills the air above with its din.
1888 J. C. Harris Free Joe 26 As happy..as a killdee by a mill-race.
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