单词 | willock |
释义 | willockn. Now historical and rare. Any of several auks; esp. a guillemot. 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] > fratercula arctica (puffin) scout1596 willock1606 bottlenose1620 parrot1664 sea-parrot1664 guldenhead1676 coulterneb1678 mullet1678 puffin1678 cockandy1684 sea-coulter1684 bowger1698 norie1701 tammie norie1701 popea1705 lunda1744 rock-bird1765 puffin-auk1768 tommy noddy1769 Tomnoddy1771 Tommya1777 Tomnorry1793 Tommy1828 sea-owl1842 the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Alcidae (auks) > [noun] > genus Alca > alca torda (razor-bill) murre1578 scout1596 willock1606 falk1698 razorbilla1705 turr1794 sea-crow1813 razorbill auk1829 tinker1862 razorbill puffin1865 1606 J. Knight Voy. in S. Purchas Pilgrimes (1625) III. iv. xvi. 828 This day wee saw many blacke Fowles like Willockes. 1620 J. Mason Briefe Disc. New-found-land 4 Teales, Twillockes, excellent wilde Duckes. 1631 E. Pellham Gods Power 31 We found abundance of Willocks egges; (which is a Fowle about the bignesse of a Ducke). 1767 tr. D. Cranz Hist. Greenland I. 84 The sea-pidgeon..is like the willock in almost every thing, except its being less, and having a fine vermilion-coloured bill and feet. 1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. at Puffin At Dover, this, as well as the Razorbill, is indiscriminately called Willock. 1855 C. Kingsley Glaucus 2 Your boys..endanger your personal safety, by blazing away at innocent gulls and willocks. 1938 J. Walpole-Bond Hist. Sussex Birds I. 49 He picked up shreds of..valuable information respecting certain other species, namely ‘Shag’ (Cormorant, certainly) and ‘Willock’ (Guillemot or Razorbill, probably both), that had bred at Seaford. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1606 |
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