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ˈsea-crow
[crow n.1 Cf. Welsh morfran.]
1. A local name for various birds: (a) the cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo; (b) the pewit-gull, Larus ridibundus; (c) the chough, Pyrrhocorax graculus; (d) the razor-billed auk, Alca torda; (e) the common skua, Stercorarius catarrhactes; (f) the jackdaw; (g) the American coot, Fulica americana, and the black skimmer, Rhynchops nigra.
1579T. Stevens in Hakluyt's Voy. (1599) II. ii. 100 But sometimes his other enemy, the sea-crow, catcheth him [a fish] before he falleth. 1668Charleton Onomast. 95 Graculus Palmipes..the Cowt, or Sea-Crow. 1813Montagu Ornith. Dict. Suppl., Auk, Razor-billed. Provincial... Sea-crow. 1897‘Allen Raine’ Welsh Singer viii. 68 On the ledge of rock the jackdaws, or the ‘little sea-crows’, as they were called on the coast, had built their untidy nest of twigs.
†2. Used to translate Gr. κορακῖνος, a black river-fish. Obs.
1722Diaper tr. Oppian's Halieut. i. 213 Here Sea-Crows dwell, nam'd from their dusky Hue.
3. A local name for the sapphirine gurnard, Trigla hirundo.
1880–4F. Day Brit. Fishes I. 61. |