crank-birdn.
A local name of the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker.
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1840 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds III. 86.
1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 99 Crank bird (Gloucestershire). From the cry of the bird resembling the creaking produced by the turning of a windlass.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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n.1840- otherwhither
- otherwise
- otherwise forth
- otherwise-minded
- otherwise-mindedness
- otherwiseminded
- otherwisemindedness
- otherwiseness
- otherwise——otherwise
- otherworldish
- otherworldism
- otherworldliness
- otherworldlinesses
- otherworldly
- otherworldness
- other——, other
- other——or
- other——other
- othing
- othman
- othonne
- othyl
- otiant
- otiation
- otiatric