释义 |
willock local.|ˈwɪlək| Also -ick. [f. Will n.3 + -ock. Cf. etym. of guillem, guillemot.] The guillemot; also, the puffin and the razor-bill.
1631Pelham Gods Power 31 We found abundance of Willocks egges; (which is a Fowle about the bignesse of a Ducke). 1635Voy. Foxe & James to N.W. (Hakluyt Soc.) I. 168 Going to kill willicks. 1802Montagu Ornith. Dict. s.v. Puffin, At Dover, this, as well as the Razorbill, is indiscriminately called Willock. 1855Kingsley Glaucus 2 Your boys..endanger your personal safety, by blazing away at innocent gulls and willocks. 1859[see guillemot]. |