hamerkopn.
/ˈhɑːməkɒp/, U.S. /ˈhɑmərˌkɑp/, South African English /ˈhɑːməkɒp/ South African.
= hammer-head n. 4.
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1834 A. Smith Diary 7 Dec. (1939) I. 163 A Basutu said the hammerkop gives rain.
1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 578/1 It [sc. Scopus umbretta]..is the ‘Hammerkop’ (Hammerhead) of the Cape colonists.
1890 Sat. Rev. 1 Feb. 139/2 The umbre is known in South Africa as the hammerkop or hammer-head.
1893 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. I Hamerkop.
1946 Cape Argus 7 Dec. 2 Hamerkops are remarkable fowl... The hamerkop's nest is a huge affair, generally in a tree.
1952 Cape Times 8 Nov. (Week-end Mag.) 6 A solitary hamerkop flies homeward every evening.
1964 C. Willock Enormous Zoo vii. 120 Hammerkops, the queer brown bird with the blunt head that gives it its name, pick over scraps in the rotting papyrus stems.
1966 E. Palmer Plains of Camdeboo xi. 195 We never saw the hamerkop in numbers.
1971 Country Life 28 Oct. 1127/2 Hammercops, curious bulky brown birds with crests and thick bills, flew about in pairs.
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