guillem
(ˈgɪləm)
Also 7 guillam, -iam, gwylim.
[app. a. Welsh Gwilym = William. Cf. guillemot.]
= guillemot.
| 1603 Owen Pembrokesh. (1891) 131 The gwylim. 1668 Wilkins Real Char. ii. viii. §4. 155 Guillam. 1674 Ray Collect. Words, Water Fowl 92 The Guilliam, Cuillem or Kiddaw: Lomwia insula Ferræ. 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Guillem, a sea-fowl. 1885 Swainson Prov. Names Birds 217. |