gorbetn.
Scottish and northern.
A young unfledged bird.
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?a1557 Lyndesay Satyre [4397] in Pinkerton Scot. Poems Repr. (1792) II. 89 Cry lyke the gorbettis of ane kae.
1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Gorbit, a newly hatched bird.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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