[clipper ship] The Windhover, 847 tons, was a composite construction British Tea Clipper Ship. Builder: Connell and Co, Glasgow, Scotland 1868 2nd place FooChow China to London Tea Race 1870 at 100 days passage. Wrecked off the coast of Australia in 1889. Windhover a British Tea Clipper - November 1868 to 1889 Constructed by Charles Connell...
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• (n.) The kestrel; -- called also windbibber, windcuffer, windfanner.
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Wind'hov`er noun [ From its habit of hovering over one spot.]
(Zoology) The kestrel; -- called also
windbibber ,
windcuffer ,
windfanner . [ Prov. Eng.]
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