† puffinetn.
English regional (north-eastern). Obsolete.
The black guillemot, Cepphus grylle.
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sea-pigeon1620
sea turtle-dove1676
Greenland-dove1678
Greenland dove1678
sea-turtle1678
diving-pigeon1694
pigeon diver1694
scraber1698
puffineta1705
Greenland turtle?1787
tinkershere1799
dovekie1819
a1705 J. Ray Itineraries in Select Remains (1760) 183 Puffinet, which is as big as a Pigeon, hath a small sharp-pointed Bill.
1768 T. G. Smollett Present State of all Nations 448 The scraber, puffin, or puffinet, is as large as a gigeon [sic], of a black colour, with a white spot on each wing, and a small sharp bill.
1813 G. Montagu Suppl. Ornithol. Dict. at Guillemot-Black This bird in the Orkney and Zetland islands is called Puffinet, Taiste, Toyste, Tysty, or Tyste.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Greenland Dove, the puffinet, called scraber in the Hebrides.
1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 218 Black Guillemot... Puffinet [printed Puffixet] (Farn Islands).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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