| 释义 |
cohow, cahow, cohoo Ornith.|kəˈhuː|
In 7 pl. cahouze.
[From its cry.]
A bird of the Bermudas, a species of Shearwater (generally understood to be Puffinus obscurus) formerly found in immense numbers, but now nearly exterminated.
1615Let. of L. Hughes in Lefroy Mem. Bermudas (1877) II. 578 About the middle of October, Birds which we call Cahouze and Pimlicoes come in..When the Cahouze time is out..noddies and sandie birds come in. 1623Capt. Smith Hist. Bermudas in Virginia 180 Coupers Ile, where were [anno 1614] such infinite numbers of the Birds called Cahowes. Ibid. 171 The Cahow is a Bird of the night, for all the day she lies hid in holes in the Rocks. 1625Purchas Pilgrims IV. 1740 They call it, of the cry which it maketh, Cohow. 1670S. Clarke Four Eng. Plantations 22. 1859 J. M. Jones Nat. in Bermuda 93–6 Mr. Hardie learned in June 1847 ‘that the Cahow was still known by its old name’. |