seamewn.
/ˈsiːmjuː/, U.S. /ˈsiˌmju/ The common gull, Larus canus.
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c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 202 The semewe with his fetherys whyte.
1480 W. Caxton tr. Ovid Metamorphoses xi. xxi They ben called Alcyones or see mewes.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. x. f. 147 Swannes, seemewes, gulles.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 835 An Iland salt and bare, The haunt of Seales and Orcs, and Sea-mews clang.
1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. v. 86 The chough, the sea-mew, the loquacious crow.
1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. xiii. 10 The breakers roar, And shrieks the wild seamew.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 149 The yacht, sweeping like a seamew over the..billow.
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