† skaitbirdn.
Scottish. Obsolete. rare.
(Meaning uncertain.) Guessed by Jamieson on insufficient grounds to be ‘the Arctic Gull’. The first element might be Norwegian and Swedish skata (Danish skade) magpie.
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1568 (a1508) W. Kennedy Flyting (Bannatyne) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 201 Skaldit skaitbird and commoun skamelar.
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