Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A European pipit or titlark, Anthus pratensis.
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Examples
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A meadow-pipit tsip-tsips from rock to rock while a buzzard mounts thermals on still wings and mews down at us.
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Then, again, our three common pipits -- the tree-pipit (Anthus arboreus), the meadow-pipit (Anthus pratensis), and the rock-pipit or sea-lark (Anthus obscurus) have each occupied a distinct place in nature to which they have become specially adapted, as indicated by the different form and size of the hind toe and claw in each species.
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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The meadow-pipit is, apparently, uncertain where he shall come down, wandering and irregular on his course.
The Life of the Fields Richard Jefferies 1867
hernesheir commented on the word meadow-pipit
"A keen bird-watcher asked me to keep a watch on five meadow-pipits on my rounds as a trapper, because he wanted to find the nests." - The Countryman (a British agricultural journal), Vol. LIII, No. 1, Spring 1956, p. 125.
September 1, 2010