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单词 common redshank
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common redshank
a. A large sandpiper, Tringa totanus, with long red legs and streaked brown plumage, common and widespread in Eurasia. Also common redshank. Cf. red-leg n. 1.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Tringa > tringa totanus (red(-)shank)
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1525 L'Estrange Househ.-bk. in Archaeologia 25 487 Item vj plovers..iiij redshancks.
?a1527 in Regulations & Establishm. Househ. Earl of Northumberland (1905) 105 Item Redeshankes to be bought at Principall Feestes for my Lordes owne Mees after jd. ob. the pece.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 31 The rede schank cryit my fut, my fut.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Biv/2 Readshanke, hæmocopedus.
1591 (?a1425) Noah's Flood (Huntington) in R. M. Lumiansky & D. Mill Chester Myst. Cycle (1974) I. 50 And here are doves, digges, drakes, redshankes ronninge through lakes.
1620 T. Venner Via Recta iii. 64 The Puet, the Red-shanke,..are..to be reiected, as vnwholsome.
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia v. 171 The gray and greene Plouer, some wilde Ducks and Malards, Coots and Red-shankes.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) iv. 108 [The description] seems more agreeable unto some kind of Hæmantopus or Redshank.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Gambetta, the name of a bird somewhat resembling the common redshank.
1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 124 Redshank..This species is found on most of our shores: in the winter time it conceals itself in the gutters; and is generally found single, or at most in pair.
1843 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Birds II. 525 Redshanks are not uncommon in Cornwall, Devonshire, and Dorsetshire.
1894 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. III 774 The body of the Redshank is almost as big as a Snipe's, but its longer neck, wings and legs make it appear a much larger bird.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xx. 634 Redshanks are very beautiful birds, first cousins of sandpipers, and the sexes are alike in plumage.
1988 Bird Watching Aug. 19/1 In flight the Redshank is easily told by its white secondary feathers and white rump.
2005 Guardian 25 Aug. (Life section) 10/2 Using radio-tagging to follow their movements, Burton and Armitage found that the redshank exploit much smaller feeding ranges by day than night.
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