Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
whimbrel .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The whimbrel.
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- noun Alternative form of
whimbrel .
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Examples
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Therewith he turned rein and galloped off after the others, and in a little while the sound of them had died off utterly into the night, and they heard but the voices of the wild things, and the wimbrel laughing from the hill-sides.
The Well at the World's End: a tale William Morris 1865
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But its real name we never knew; for there was no man there to give us a name or tell us any tale thereof; but all was waste there; the wimbrel laughed across its water, the raven croaked from its crags, the eagle screamed over it, and the voices of its waters never ceased; and thus we left it.
The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale William Morris 1865
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