| 单词 | settler's clock |
| 释义 | > as lemmassettler's clock settler's clock n. (or settlers' clock) Australian (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Coraciiformes (kingfisher, etc.) > [noun] > family Alcedinidae > dacelo novaeguineae (kookaburra) kingfisher1440 laughing jackass1798 settler's clock1827 jackass1844 goburra1860 Jack1863 kookaburra1890 Jacky1898 Jacko1907 kooka1933 1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales I. xiii. 232 The loud and discordant noise of the laughing jackass (or settler's clock, as he is called)..acquaints us that the sun has just dipped behind the hills. 1847 F. W. L. Leichhardt Jrnl. Overland Exped. Austral. viii. 234 The laughing Jackass (Dacelo gigantea) which, from its regularity, has not been unaptly named the settlers' clock. < as lemmas |
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