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单词 hay-jack
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hay-jackn.

Etymology: compare hay-bird n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈhay-jack.
A name given to several small birds which build their nests of hay.
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hole-nester1938
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Hay-jack, the lesser reed-sparrow, or sedge-bird of Penn.
1888 A. Newton in Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 553/1 The nests of each of these species [of Sylvia] are very pretty works of art, firmly built of bents or other plant stalks..This style of nest-building..has obtained for the builders the name of ‘Hay-Jack’, quite without reference to the kind of bird which puts the nests together.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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