单词 | water crake |
释义 | > as lemmaswater crake 2. A name of birds of the family Rallidæ, esp. the corncrake n. (also bean crake) or landrail ( Crex pratensis); also the water crake or spotted crake ( Porzana maruetta). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Rallidae (rail) > crex crex (corn-crake) raila1450 quail?a1500 corncrakea1525 daker-hen1552 craker1698 corn-craker1703 landrail1766 crake1793 rye-crake1807 grass-drake1826 corn-rail1830 meadow crake1833 meadow gallinule1843 a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat (Asloan) l. 782 in F. J. Amours Sc. Allit. Poems (1897) 74 The Corn Crake [a1525 Asloan (Craigie 1925) cornecrake; 1568 Bannatyne corncraik], the pundar at hand. 1793 R. Burns Poems (ed. 2) II. 171 Mourn, clamouring craiks at close o' day. 1797 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds I. 313 The young Crakes run as soon as they have burst the shell. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xcix. 152 The brook shall..flood the haunts of hern and crake. 1863 Spring Lapl. 353 None of the rails or crakes appear to come so far north. 1879 R. Adamson Lays Leisure Hours 49 I hear, in gloamin grey The crake among the corn. water crake water crake n. now rare (a) the European dipper, Cinclus cinclus (now historical); (b) a rail that lives in wet places; esp. one of the genus Porzana, as the spotted crake, P. porzana, or Baillon's crake, P. pusilla. [With sense (a) compare earlier water ouzel n.] ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Rallidae (rail) > genus Rallus > rallus aquaticus (water rail) raila1450 coot1547 brook ouzel1611 bidcock1622 water rail1655 runner1668 water crake1676 bilcock1678 velvet runner1678 skiddy1787 fen-cock1880 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Cinclidae > cinclus aquaticus (dipper) dippera1425 water ouzel1622 waterthrush1668 water crake1676 water blackbird1678 piet1804 water crow1804 water-piet1804 water cock1806 ducker1837 dipper-bird1894 1676 F. Willughby & J. Ray Ornithologiæ i. 20 Merula Aquatica, the Water-Ouzel, or Water-Crake. 1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. Ouzel–Water,...Provincial, Water Crake. 1849 A. Soyer Mod. Housewife 286 Water-rail, spotted gallinule, or watercrake... The heart is most delicious eating. 1900 Canterbury Old & New 196 In the rail family we have..the striped rail, the water crake, the swamp crake, and the swamp hen. 2007 R. Lovegrove Silent Fields vi. 145 At Market Weighton..307 Dippers (‘water crakes’ and ‘water crows’ were the colloquial names in that part of northern England) were killed. < as lemmas |
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