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ˈsea-gull
Also 6 seegell.
1. = gull n.1
1542Rutland MSS. (1905) IV. 324 For bringing seygwlles and other fowlles, vs. 1544[see sea-cob1]. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 401 The counterfect philosopher..sheweth himself like unto a sea Gull among a sort of faire swannes. 1659Pell Impr. Sea 236 A Fezerallo, is a black-coloured bird, but somewhat less than a Sea-Gull. 1766Gray Kingsgate 7 Here sea-gulls scream, and cormorants rejoice. 1837Dickens Pickw. xx, To watch the flight of a seagull. 1888F. Hume Mme. Midas i. Prol., Flocks of white seagulls..were constantly circling round.
transf. and fig.1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe 60 That greedy seagull ignorance is apt to deuoure any thing. 1642Milton Apol. Smect. Wks. 1851 III. 276 Now trust me not, Readers, if I be not already weary of pluming and footing this Seagull, so open he lies to strokes.
2. A casual, non-Union, dock labourer. N.Z. slang.
c1926‘Mixer’ Transport Workers' Songbk. 46 What a study! Let us paint it As the sea-gulls fly about, While the stringer birds are anxious For the meeting to come out. 19432 N.Z.E.F. Times 20 Sept. 5 As a result of a survey of non-Union labour on the wharves..500 out of 800 ‘sea⁓gulls’ were interviewed at the Auckland District Man⁓power Office. 1959G. Slatter Gun in my Hand xvii. 225 Ended up as a sea-gull on the Wellington wharves loading up the Home boats. 1966G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. Austral. & N.Z. vii. 150 The watersiders have their own special language, but the only term I know from experience is seagull, the casual non-union labourer who picks up a job during busy times on the waterfront. |