sea-barn.
‘the sea-swallow or tern’ (in modern dictionaries), comes from a misprinted entry in Ainsworth Eng.-Lat. Dict. (1736) which should read ‘Sea-bat, hirundo piscis’ (i.e. the flying-fish).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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n.1911- to get work up a head of steam
- to get wrong
- to get yours
- to get, , lose flesh
- to get, come, etc, unstuck
- to get, get oneself in, lose flesh
- to get, give, have fair law
- to get, give, have fair law of
- to get, give, have law
- to get, give, have law of
- to get, give, have, obtain, take a licence
- to get, give, have, obtain, take licence
- to get, have or give a skrik
- to get, have or give someone a skrik
- to get, have, meet with one's deserts
- to get, have, or take a cold
- to get, have, or take a right sow by the ear
- to get, have, or take a wrong sow by the ear
- to get, have, or take the right sow by the ear
- to get, have, or take the wrong sow by the ear
- to get, have, possess the dead-wood
- to get, have, possess the deadwood
- to get, have, take scathe
- to get, have, tie a bun on
- to get, take, or have a rise out of