Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The kittiwake gull, Rissa tridactyla. See cut under kittiwake.
  • noun A tern or sea-swallow.
  • noun A guillemot or murre.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Prov. Eng., Prov. Eng. The young of the kittiwake gull before the first molt.
  • noun Prov. Eng. The common guillemot.
  • noun The common tern.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun a young kittiwake.
  • noun UK, dialect The common guillemot.
  • noun UK, dialect The common tern.

Etymologies

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Greenland tattarock.

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  • Orkney Scots term for the kittiwake.

    May 24, 2011