tealn.
/tiːl/, U.S. /til/ 1.
a. A small freshwater fowl, Querquedula or Anas crecca, or other species of the genus, the smallest of the ducks, widely distributed in Europe, Asia, and America; also locally applied to other genera of the Anatidæ. Also as collective plural.
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Anas (miscellaneous) > anas crecca (teal)
teal1314
Colman's birda1387
sarcellea1387
cercelle1387
greenwing1813
teal-duck1845
jay-teal1885
1314 in Wardrobe Acc. Edw. II 21 2 teles 3d.
c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 151 Turbe de cercels [gl. teles].
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 563/45 Anacius, a tele.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 487/2 Tele, bryd, turcella, turbella.
1486 Bk. St. Albans d j I haue seen them made sum to sle the pie sum to sle the Tele vppon the Reuer.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 279/2 Teele a byrde, plignon.
?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Civ The teyle, le cercelle.
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Querquedula, a waterfowle callyd a teale.
1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 191 Some water pashet or pitte where wyldefowle lye, as Teales or suche lyke.
1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husb. ii. 128 So you may nourish Teyles [1668 Teils], Widgens, Sheldrakes or greene Plouers.
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 183 Teales and Widgins... Commonly they are very fat and sweet of taste.
1773 G. White Let. 9 Nov. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 99 I saw young teals taken alive in the ponds of Wolmer-forest.
1873 G. C. Davies Mountain, Meadow & Mere ix. 70 A couple of teal came within shot.
1876 S. Smiles Life Sc. Naturalist xiii. 259 The Teal..and the Eider Duck, visited the loch in vast numbers.
b. The flesh of this bird as food.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > fowls > [noun] > duck
mallarda1425
teal?c1475
duck1774
canard1913
?c1475 Sqr. lowe Degre 320 With deynty meates that were dere,..The tele, the ducke and the drake.
1620 T. Venner Via Recta iii. 65 Teale..excelleth all other water~fowle.
1735 Sheridan in J. Swift Let. to Mrs. Whiteway 8 Nov. His teal was spoiled in the roasting.
c. A shade of dark greenish blue resembling the patches of this colour on the head and wings of the teal.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [noun] > greenish blue
peacock colour1598
verditer1819
verdigris blue1832
robin's-egg blue1844
aquamarine1846
turquoise1853
verditer blue1857
bird's-egg blue1858
Alice1872
Nile blue1873
starch blue1875
cyan-blue1879
peacock1881
peacock blue1881
bird's egg1885
Gobelin blue1886
cyan1889
Nile1895
kingfisher1901
Alice blue1905
teal1923
aqua1936
teal blue1949
1923 Daily Mail 14 Feb. 10 (advt.) Jersey frocks... Colours: Teal, Purple and Champ.
1978 N.Y. Times 29 Mar. a 14 (advt.) Both in a delicious new shade of teal…we call it Prussian blue!
2. With distinctive premodifier, applied to various species of Querquedula and allied genera: as American or green-winged teal n. Q. carolinensis. Baikal or Japanese teal n. Q. (Eunetta) formosa. blue-winged teal n. of North and South America, Q. discors or cyanoptera. Brazilian teal n. Q. brasiliensis. Chilean Teal n. Q. flavirostris. cinnamon or redbreasted teal n. Q. cyanoptera. falcated teal n. Q. falcata, of China. cricket teal (see cricket n.1 Compounds). summer teal n. = cricket teal n. at cricket n.1 Compounds). garganey teal n. the garganey n., Q. circia. Chinese Teal n. the mandarin duck, Aix galericulata. goose teal n. see goose n. Compounds 2. saltwater or brown diving teal n. the rudder duck n. at rudder n. Compounds 1d (G. Trumbull Game Birds 1888).
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > erismatura rubida (ruddy duck)
pintail1674
saltwater or brown diving teal1678
ruddy goose1785
ruddy duck1800
dun diver1844
stick-tail1844
pin-tailed duck1851
ruddy1877
rudder duck1884
fool duck1888
hardhead1888
paddy1888
paddywhack1888
steel-head1888
hardhead1893
rudder bird1894
the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Anas (miscellaneous)
spirit1747
Baikal or Japanese teal1785
butter-back1791
parera1835
geelbek1867
the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Anas (miscellaneous) > anas querquecula (garganey)
garganey1668
summer teal1668
garganey teal1824
the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Anas (miscellaneous) > anas discors (blue-wing)
blue-wing1709
blue-winged teal1837
1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 378 Of the Summer-Teal, called by Gesner Ana circia.
1754 M. Catesby & G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Carolina (rev. ed.) I. 99 The Blue-Wing Teal.
1785 T. Pennant Arctic Zool. II. ii. 569 American Teal.
1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. ii. 557 Baikal Teal.
1824 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. XII. xii. ii. 143 Garganey Teal.
1824 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. XII. xii. ii. 153 Mexican Teal.
1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 181/2 The beautiful Anas (Boschas) formosa, Sw., or Baikal Teal of methodists.
1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 182/1 Such a species is actually the blue-winged Teal of North America.
1896 List Anim. Zool. Soc. 447 [Seven species named].
1896 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. IV 949 In ordinary talk ‘Teal’ stands for any Duck-like bird of small size.
1896 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. IV 949 In the same loose sense the word is often applied to the two most beautiful of the Family Anatidæ, belonging to the genus Æx..—the Carolina or Wood-Duck of North America, Æ. sponsa.., and the Mandarin-Duck of China, Æ. galericulata.
Compounds
C1. attributive and in other combinations, as teal-catcher, teal-duck, teal-flapper (flapper n.1 3), teal-shooting, teal-springing.
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Anas (miscellaneous) > anas crecca (teal)
teal1314
Colman's birda1387
sarcellea1387
cercelle1387
greenwing1813
teal-duck1845
jay-teal1885
the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > [noun] > shooting other birds
ducking1589
pouting1672
partridging1682
cocking1686
teal-shooting1874
sniping1875
the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > fowler > [noun] > teal hunter
teal-catcher1902
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. v. §4. 156 To the Teal-kind should be reduced that other fowl..called Gargane.
1845 New Statist. Acct. Scotl. XIV. 122 Teal-duck..are found here.
1874 J. W. Long Amer. Wild-fowl Shooting xv. 193 In no other branch of wild-fowling is a breech-loader of more advantage than in teal-shooting.
1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms I. iii. 31 I was off the old pony and into the water like a teal flapper.
1902 T. W. Webber Forests Upper India xviii. 247 A..canoe..which belongs to the teal-catchers.
C2.
teal blue n. a shade of dark blue tinged with green (cf. sense 1c above).
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [noun] > greenish blue
peacock colour1598
verditer1819
verdigris blue1832
robin's-egg blue1844
aquamarine1846
turquoise1853
verditer blue1857
bird's-egg blue1858
Alice1872
Nile blue1873
starch blue1875
cyan-blue1879
peacock1881
peacock blue1881
bird's egg1885
Gobelin blue1886
cyan1889
Nile1895
kingfisher1901
Alice blue1905
teal1923
aqua1936
teal blue1949
the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [adjective] > greenish blue
turquoise1573
pavonaceous1688
aquamarine1846
verditer1857
robin's egg1871
peacock1873
starch blue1875
bird's-egg blue1878
Alice blue1905
kingfisher1930
teal blue1949
1949 Dict. Colours Interior Decoration (Brit. Colour Council) III. 26/2 Teal blue, a descriptive colour name from the plumage of the small freshwater duck.
1963 New Yorker 1 June 75 Sandwich-board sheaths in teal-blue linen are piped down the sides with double rows of lime.
1980 M. H. Clark Cradle will Fall iv. 24 Her teal-blue uniform.
teal-house n. = tealery n. at Derivatives.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > poultry-keeping > [noun] > enclosure for poultry > place for other poultry
duckery1745
quail pit1773
quailery1843
tealery1890
teal-house1902
1902 T. W. Webber Forests Upper India xviii. 247 Most bungalows in Gorakhpur have a teal house..where teal are fattened.
Derivatives
ˈtealery n. a place in which teal are kept and fattened.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > poultry-keeping > [noun] > enclosure for poultry > place for other poultry
duckery1745
quail pit1773
quailery1843
tealery1890
teal-house1902
1890 Cornhill Mag. July 17 Here are..the cow-house, and the tealery, and the quailery.
1894 E. Braddon in Blackwood's Mag. Sept. 387/2 The teal..kept and fattened in a tealery.
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