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ˈsea-fowl
[Cf. OE. Sǽfuᵹol occurring as a proper name in O.E. Chron. an. 560.]
A sea-bird.
1340–70Alisaunder 811 Þan fetches hee a seafoule faire of his wynges. 1620J. Mason New-found-land in Mem. (1887) 151 The sea fowles are gulles, sea pigeons [etc.]. 1767tr. Cranz' Greenland I. 79 The sea-fowls have all alike webbed feet like a goose. Ibid. 82 The second class of sea⁓fowl. 1870Yeats Nat. Hist. Comm. i. ix. (1872) 92 Innumerable sea-fowl skim the surf or sweep the sky.
attrib.1898R. Kearton Wild Life at Home 103 The famous Noup of Noss is a perfect sea-fowl paradise. |