daker-hen dial.
[Connexion has been suggested with daiker v., and with Flem. daeckeren ‘volitare, motari, mobilitare, et coruscare’ (Kilian). But no such name appears to be applied to the bird in Flanders.]
The Corn-crake or Land-rail.
| 1552 Elyot Bibl., Crex, a certaine birde, whiche semeth by Aristotle to be that whiche in some places is called a Daker hen. 1678 Ray Willughby's Ornith. 170 The Rail or Daker-hen. 1766 Pennant Zool. (1768) II. 387. 1789 G. White Selborne (1853) 347 A man brought me a land-rail or daker-hen. 1869 Lonsdale Gloss., Daker-hen, the corn-crake. |