α. 1700s– tinkershire, 1800s– tinkasheer (Canadian), 1800s– tinkershere.
β. 1800s tinker's hue, 1800s tinkershue.
单词 | tinkershere |
释义 | tinkersheren.α. 1700s– tinkershire, 1800s– tinkasheer (Canadian), 1800s– tinkershere. β. 1800s tinker's hue, 1800s tinkershue. Now historical and rare. 1. English regional. The common guillemot, Uria aalge. Occasionally also: the black guillemot, Cepphus grylle. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Alcidae (auks) > [noun] > member of genus Uria (guillemot) coot1382 murre1578 scout1596 guillem1603 willock1606 kiddaw1674 sea-hen1676 guillemot1678 loom1694 lavy1698 foolish guillemot1776 willy1780 turr1794 tinkershere1799 strany1804 spratter1863 bacalao-bird1865 tinker1880 the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Alcidae (auks) > [noun] > cepphus grylle (black guillemot) sea-pigeon1620 sea turtle-dove1676 Greenland-dove1678 Greenland dove1678 sea-turtle1678 diving-pigeon1694 pigeon diver1694 scraber1698 puffineta1705 Greenland turtle?1787 tinkershere1799 dovekie1819 1799 R. Pulteney Catal. Birds, Shells, & Plants Dorsetshire 17 C[olymbus] Troile... The Foolish Guillemot Diver; called here The Tinkershire. 1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. Tinkershire, vide Guillemot-foolish. 1831 J. Rennie Montagu's Ornithol. Dict. (ed. 2) 512 Tinker's hue, a name for the Guillemot. 1864 J. C. Atkinson List Provinc. Names Birds Tinkershue, Black Guillemot, Uria grylle. 1889 H. Saunders Man. Brit. Birds 684 By fishermen it is known as ‘Scout’, ‘Marrot’ or ‘Tinkershere’. 2007 C. L. Henderson Oology & Ralph's Talking Eggs vi. 60/1 Common Murre (Uria aalge) Historic Names: Guillemot, Foolish Guillemot.., Tinker, Tinkershire, Kiddaw, Skiddaw.., Frowl. 2. Canadian. The willet, Tringa semipalmata (family Scolopacidae), a large North American shorebird. ΚΠ 1873 Bull. Essex Inst. (Salem, Mass.) Mar. 37 Willet... The old men tell about a bird they call a ‘Tinkasheer’ that used to breed in abundance on Menan fifty years ago, and from their description it seems to be identical with the species in question. 1957 W. L. AcAtee Folk-names Canad. Birds 31 Willet... tinkasheer (‘Tinkashere’, a British provincial name for the common murre is clearly the original of this word; it means tinker's hue, i.e., dark; how it came to be applied to so very different an American bird is a puzzle.). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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