1) Age of Sail merchant ship 2) Crested plover 3) Exclusively Saxon word 4) Exclusively Anglo word 5) Green plover 6) Peewit 7) Pewit 8) Plover 9) Word of purely Anglo origin 10) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins
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1) Peewit 2) Pewit 3) Plover
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Vanellus Vanellinae are any of various crested plovers, family Charadriidae, noted for its slow, irregular wingbeat in flight and a shrill, wailing cry. Its length is 10–16 inches. They are a subfamily of medium-sized wading birds which also includes the plovers and dotterels. The Vanellinae are collectively called lapwings but also contain the ...
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• (n.) A small European bird of the Plover family (Vanellus cristatus, or V. vanellus). It has long and broad wings, and is noted for its rapid, irregular fight, upwards, downwards, and in circles. Its back is coppery or greenish bronze. Its eggs are the `plover`s eggs` of the London market, esteemed a delicacy. It is called also peewit, dasta...
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any of numerous species of birds of the plover family, Charadriidae (order Charadriiformes), especially the Eurasian lapwing, Vanellus vanellus, of ... [2 related articles]
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<zoology> A small European bird of the Plover family (Vanellus cristatus, or V. Vanellus). It has long and broad wings, and is noted for its rapid, irregular fight, upwards, downwards, and in circles. Its back is coppery or greenish bronze. Its eggs are the 'plover's eggs' of the London market, esteemed a delicacy. It is called also peewit, d...
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Lap'wing` noun [ Middle English
lapwynke ,
leepwynke , Anglo-Saxon
hleápewince ;
hleápan to leap, jump + (prob.) a word akin to Anglo-Saxon
wincian to wink, English
wink , Anglo-Saxon
wancol wavering; confer German
wanken to stagger, waver. S...
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The lapwing (Vanellus) is a genus of bird of the plover family Charadridae, native to every continent except North America and Antarctica. Most are birds of fresh water wetlands, but some inhabit dry grassland or moorland. Many have sharp spurs at the bend of the wing, and some have facial wattles or crests. Best known is the northern lapwing or co...
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HMS Lapwing was a British modified Black Swan Class sloop of 1430 tons displacement launched and sunk during the Second World War. HMS Lapwing was powered by two 3-drum type boilers providing a top speed of 20 knots and carried a complement of 192. She was armed with six 4 inch dual purpose guns and eight 2 pdr anti-aircraft guns.
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n] - large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs
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green plover noun large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs
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Bird belonging to the plover family, also known as the green plover and, from its call, as the peewit. Bottle-green above and white below, with a long thin crest and rounded wings, it is about 30 cm/1 ft long. It inhabits moorland in Europe and Asia, making a nest scratched out of the ground, and is also often seen on farmland. (Species
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