ground-birdn.

Forms: see ground n. and bird n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: ground n., bird n.

Etymology: < ground n. + bird n.

†1. Applied to a particular swan out of a ‘game’, or perhaps more than one, possibly as being the due of the owner of the land. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > payment or service to feudal superior > [noun] > payments in produce or goods

fodder corn1222

wood-tale1235

malt-gavel?a1375

ground-bird1560

avenage1594

spendinga1599

stent oil1614

aver-corn1670

booting-corn1670

brennage1753

truncage1893

the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Cyginae (swans) > [noun] > member of genus Cygnus (miscellaneous) > cygnus olor (common swan) > branded swan(s)

mark1482

swan-mark1550

ground-bird1560

1560 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 285 For uppyng the ground byrde in portemeade.

1562 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 304 Item, payed for a grounde byrd..xijd.

1570 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 330 Payed for two growne burds.

1887 Standard 1 Aug. 5/2 The owner of the soil claimed one cygnet as ‘the ground bird’.

2. A general name for any columbine, gallinaceous, grallatorial, or struthious bird.

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the world > animals > birds > defined by habitat > [noun] > land-bird

land-bird1570

land-pullen1601

land-fowl1669

ground-bird1840

1840 E. Blyth et al. tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (1849) 251 The various groups of Ground-birds (as the vast majority of the foregoing extensive series may be appropriately denominated) fall into six principal divisions.

3. U.S. The grass-finch or ground-sparrow.

ΚΠ

1853 W. C. Bryant Poems (new ed.) 83 And the brown ground-bird, in thy glen Still chirps as merrily as then.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	ground-bird
释义	ground-birdn. Forms: see ground n. and bird n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: ground n., bird n. Etymology: < ground n. + bird n. †1. Applied to a particular swan out of a ‘game’, or perhaps more than one, possibly as being the due of the owner of the land. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > payment or service to feudal superior > [noun] > payments in produce or goods fodder corn1222 wood-tale1235 malt-gavel?a1375 ground-bird1560 avenage1594 spendinga1599 stent oil1614 aver-corn1670 booting-corn1670 brennage1753 truncage1893 the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Cyginae (swans) > [noun] > member of genus Cygnus (miscellaneous) > cygnus olor (common swan) > branded swan(s) mark1482 swan-mark1550 ground-bird1560 1560 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 285 For uppyng the ground byrde in portemeade. 1562 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 304 Item, payed for a grounde byrd..xijd. 1570 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 330 Payed for two growne burds. 1887 Standard 1 Aug. 5/2 The owner of the soil claimed one cygnet as ‘the ground bird’. 2. A general name for any columbine, gallinaceous, grallatorial, or struthious bird. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > defined by habitat > [noun] > land-bird land-bird1570 land-pullen1601 land-fowl1669 ground-bird1840 1840 E. Blyth et al. tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (1849) 251 The various groups of Ground-birds (as the vast majority of the foregoing extensive series may be appropriately denominated) fall into six principal divisions. 3. U.S. The grass-finch or ground-sparrow. ΚΠ 1853 W. C. Bryant Poems (new ed.) 83 And the brown ground-bird, in thy glen Still chirps as merrily as then. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1560
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