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ˈsea-ˌeagle
1. An eagle of the genus Haliaëtus, esp. the White-tailed Eagle, H. albicilla (see eagle n. 6 a). Also a name for the frigate-bird and the skua-gull.
1668Charleton Onomast. 62 Haliætus, Aquila marina, the Sea-Eagle. 1710Sibbald Fife & Kinross 46 Cataractes, some call it the Sea-Eagle. 1805G. Barry Orkney Isl. 313 The Sea Eagle (falco ossefragus, Lin. Syst.) is often seen. 1817Shelley Laon vii. xv, The sea-eagle looked a fiend, who bore Thy mangled limbs for food! a1843J. F. South in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XXV. 408/2 The Frigate Bird, Man-of-War Bird, Sea Eagle, and Halcyon, by all of which names it [Tachypetes Aquilus] is known to sailors, is commonly found between the tropics. 1848Maunder Treas. Nat. Hist. 599, Sea-eagle, the Erne: also the name sometimes given to the Osprey. 1875–84Layard & Sharpe Birds S. Africa 46 Haliaetus vocifer. African Sea-Eagle.
2. The eagle-ray (see eagle 6 b).
1722J. Jones Oppian's Halieut. 227 ἀετός..the Sea-Eagle, a kind of Ray. 1740R. Brookes Art of Angling ii. lxvii. 188 The Sea-Eagle..has a Head almost like that of a Toad. 1836Yarrell Brit. Fishes II. 591. 1847 [see eagle n. 6 b]. |