单词 | jackdaw nest |
释义 | > as lemmasjackdaw nest C1. General attributive (in sense 2), as jackdaw chick, jackdaw call, jackdaw nest, etc. ΚΠ 1826 Glasgow Herald 23 June 4/4 Three jackdaw nests, recently evacuated. 1888 Cornhill Mag. Aug. 135 Nowhere in Britain does greater interest attach to the jackdaw colony than on Iona, where they find shelter in the crannies of the great cathedral tower. 1933 Chambers's Jrnl. Mar. 231/1 The stoat might have been seen tussling to get a dead jackdaw chick up the cliff face. 1985 Washington Post (Nexis) 16 June (Final ed.) d6 Three birders from Penn State University were trundling off after watching all morning and seeing nary a jackdaw feather. 2006 Brattleboro (Vermont) Reformer (Nexis) 10 Feb. Eastern crows that breed in Maine..do not react to the jackdaw calls. < as lemmas |
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