towilleen.
dialect.
A local name for the Sanderling: cf. curwillet n.; also, for the Ringed Plover: cf. dulwilly n.
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ringlestonesa1682
stone-runner1681
sand laverock1694
sandy laverock1710
ring-necked plover1750
towillee1758
sand lark1771
ringed plover1776
ring dotterel1797
ring plover1797
dulwilly1802
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ringed sand plover1842
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sand-runner1894
the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > genus Calidris > calidris alba (sanderling)
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curwillet1674
towillee1758
ruddy plover1785
sand-runner1894
1758 W. Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornwall 247 Here we have coots, sanderlings, (which, from the noise they make when flying, we call Towillees), sea-larks, sea-pies.
1804 T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds II. 1 (heading) Sanderling. Towillee, or Curwillet.
1880 J. E. Harting Rodd's Birds of Cornwall & Scilly Islands 315/2 Towillees, and Turwillie, Ringed Plover.
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