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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