单词 | swartback |
释义 | swartbackswarthbackn. local. The great black-backed gull, Larus marinus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Larus (gull) > larus marinus (blackback) swartbacka1525 gull-mawc1550 cob1574 blackback1676 wagel1676 saddleback1770 blackback gull1783 swabie1821 parson gull1849 minister1925 a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 180 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 100 The goule was a gryntar The suerthbak a sellerar. 1676 J. Sterpin tr. L. J. Debes Færoœ 141 The Swarth bag [Dan. svartbagen] is a great Bird like a Kite, it is white all over, but the back. 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 344 In the Feroe Islands it is called, The Swarth-back. 1805 G. Barry Hist. Orkney iii. i. 304 The Great Black and White Gull..our black-backed maw, or as it is sometimes called swartback, is the largest of the gull kind in our seas. 1821 W. Scott Pirate I. x. 231 Thy foot had been on the Maiden-skerrie of Northmaven, known before but to the webbed sole of the swartback. 1821 W. Scott Pirate I. x. 227 A thousand varying screams, from the deep note of the swabie or swartback, to the querulous cry of the tirracke. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.a1525 |
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