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单词 yarwhelp
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yarwhelpn.

Forms: Also 1500s yerwhelp, 1600s yarewhelp, yarwell, 1600s–1800s yarwip, 1700s yarwhelph, 1700s–1800s yarwhip.
Etymology: ? Imitative of the goat-like cry of the godwit; compare yarr v.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈyarwhelp.
local.
The bar-tailed godwit ( Limosa lapponica or rufa) and the black-tailed godwit (Latin ægocephala or melanura).
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Limosa (godwit) > limosa lapponica (bar-tailed godwit)
preen1548
yarwhelp1577
pick1655
stone plover1678
red-breasted godwit1747
red godwit1768
strand plover1772
bar-tailed godwit1828
bar-tailed godwit1828
kuaka1873
the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Limosa (godwit) > limosa limosa (black-tailed)
yarwhelp1577
red godwit1768
shrieker1855
1577 in Archaeologia (1821) 19 289 Yerwhelps ij..ijs.
1579 J. Jones Arte preseruing Bodie & Soule i. xiv. 26 The flesh of..Towin, Yarwhelpe, Plover, Wodcocke.
1634 in J. N. Simpkinson Washingtons (1860) App. p. xiii Yarwell 1 dozen and 11 02 14 02.
1668 Sir T. Browne Let. to Dr. Merrett 29 Dec. A Yarwhelp, Barker, or Latrator a marsh bird about the bignesse of a Godwitt.
1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 292 The Godwit, called in some places the Yarwhelp, or Yarwip.
1744 Ant. & Pres. St. Co. Down xviii. 227 The Yarwhelp or Yarwip, is something like a Wood-cock.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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