weather-blateweather-bladeweather-bleatn.
/ˈwɛðəbleɪt/, U.S. /ˈwɛðərˌbleɪt/, Irish English /ˈwɛðərbleːt/ Brit. /ˈwɛðəbleɪd/, U.S. /ˈwɛðərˌbleɪd/, Irish English /ˈwɛðərbleːd/ Brit. /ˈwɛðəbliːt/, U.S. /ˈwɛðərˌblit/, Irish English /ˈwɛðərbliːt/ Anglo-Irish.
The snipe.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > genus Gallinago > galinago gallinago (common snipe)
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1802 G. V. Sampson Statist. Surv. Londonderry 459 The weather-blate, or snipe, flying high in a calm night, is a good sign.
1890 D. A. Simmons List Peculiar Words & Phrases Armagh & Expressions S. Donegal in Educational Gaz. (Dublin) Weather-blade, a snipe which utters a sound like a goat.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 29 Sept. 2/3 The black water-hen and the sad weather-bleat.
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