| 单词 | shad-bird |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshad-bird shad-bird n. (a) dialect the common sandpiper, Tringoides hypoleucus, ? obsolete; (b) ‘the common American snipe, Gallinago wilsoni or G. delicata’ ( Cent. Dict. 1891). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Tringa > tringa hypoleucos (common sandpiper) sea-lark1602 sandpiper1674 sand laverock1694 sandy laverock1710 sand lark1771 summer snipe1794 shad-bird1879 fiddler1885 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- 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. at Shad-bird It is probable that the Severn fishermen, connecting the appearance of the bird with the advent of the shad-fishing season, gave to it the local appellation of Shad-bird. 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Shad-bird. 1883 Kriger in Trumbull Names & Portraits Birds 157 in Encycl. Dict. Suppl. [In Delaware] snipe are called shad-birds by many of the fishermen. 1904 W. M. Gallichan Fishing & Trav. Spain 164 Shad~fishing is still a flourishing industry in the Valley of the Minho. < as lemmas |
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