单词 | scaledrake |
释义 | scaledraken. = sheldrake n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Tadorna (sheldrake) sheldrakec1325 bergander1544 skeeling-goose1578 scaledrake1600 burranet1602 sheld-fowl?1606 burrow-duck1678 vulpanser1706 shelduck1707 mountain duck1711 sly-goose1776 Brahminy duck1813 paradise duck1813 red goose1848 stock annet1852 1600 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1816) IV. 236/2 Ony..skeldraikis herroun butter, or ony sic kynd of foullis. 1659 Lady Alimony ii. ii. sig. B4 Who is she that looks like a mouted Scaledrake? 1813 G. Montagu Suppl. Ornithol. Dict. at Shieldrake Scaledrake. 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 153 Common Sheldrake (Tadorna cornuta)... Skeldrake or Scale drake (Orkney Isles). 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 188 Oyster catcher (Hæmatopus ostrilegus)... Skeldrake or Skieldrake (Orkney Isles). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1600 |
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