quar-martinn.English regional (Wiltshire) rare the sand martin, Riparia riparia, which nests in holes that it excavates in sandy cliffs and banks.
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1879 R. JefferiesWild Life 169 These birds are called by the labourers ‘quar-martins’, because they breed in holes drilled in the face of the sandy precipices of quarries.