Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An oxbiter or oxpecker; an African bird of the family Buphagidæ (which see).
- noun A weaver-bird, Textor alector.
- noun The dunlin, Pelidna alphina or Tringa variabilis, a kind of sandpiper.
- noun The sanderling, Calidris arenaria.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The dunlin.
- noun The sanderling.
- noun An African weaver bird (
Textor alector ).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
dunlin . - noun The
sanderling . - noun An
African weaverbird (Textor alector).
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Examples
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On landing, we could see the tracks of some barefooted people, who had been there not long before, for their foe was still burning; yet we could see no people, nor any living creature, except a fowl called oxbird, being a grey sea-bird, in colour like a _snipe_, but different in the beak.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784
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