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Plover
Definitions
- 1 A minor city in Pocahontas County, Iowa, United States, named for the bird.
- 2 A town in Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States.
- 3 A town and village in Portage County, Wisconsin.
- 1 Any of various wading birds of the subfamily Charadriinae.
- 2 any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers wordnet
- 3 A masked lapwing (Vanellus miles). Australia
- 1 To dote over, or, crowd or nestle with
"Invisible twine plying merchants are unravelling the long grasses and the plovering pull of the long windstrewngrasses pluck the prince in his chest his heart his passion and love as if no tomorrow."
- 2 To hunt for plover.
"Gentlemen often came from Dublin, and payed me for going into the Channel with them a plovering and fishing, and going aboard of Ships in the Bay; but once among the rest, some of these Chaps came to hire my Smack, to go into the Bay, which I let them have to my Sorrow;"
- 3 To wade along the shore, examining the sand like a plover does.
"Men with nothing to do plovered the sand - edge with clam rakes that raked nothing."
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English plover, from Anglo-Norman plover, plovier, from Medieval Latin plovarius, pluviārius, of disputed origin; perhaps from Latin pluvia (“rain”).
Inherited from Middle English plover, from Anglo-Norman plover, plovier, from Medieval Latin plovarius, pluviārius, of disputed origin; perhaps from Latin pluvia (“rain”).
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