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† ˈcalmewe Obs.
Also 5 caldmaw.
[Deriv. uncertain; possibly f. cald, cold + mew (Sc. maw) a gull. Cf. colmow.]
Some sea-fowl; perhaps the Winter Mew, or Gull in its immature plumage.
c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (1840) 202 The semewe..Nor the caldmawe, nouthir fat nor lene. 14..Piers of Fullh. 356 in Hazl. E.P.P. II. 15 The lampwynkes and thise calmewes That sweme on wawes whan it flowes, And som tyme on the sondis gone. |