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hackbolt|ˈhækbəʊlt| Also hagbolt. A local name for the greater Shearwater, Puffinus major.
1843in Yarrell Hist. Birds III. 505 P. Major is very well known to the Scillonians by whom it is called Hackbolt. 1893Newton Dict. Birds 11, Hackbolt, hagbolt, and hagdown, names said to be given by the people of Scilly and Man to the larger of the species of Shearwater. |