ˈheather-ˌbleater Sc. and north. dial.
Also -blut(t)er, -bluiter, -blooter; corrupted earn-bleater, hammer-bleat, -er.
[as prec., with second element conformed to agent-nouns in -er.]
= prec.
| a 1617 J. Burel Pilgremer in Watson Collect. (1706) ii. 27 (Jam.) The Hobie and the Hedderbluter. 1791 Statist. Acc. Scotl., Ayrsh. II. 72 (Jam.) A bird, which the people here call a hether blutter. 1820 Scott Monast. iv, What saw she in the bog, then..forby moor-cocks and heather⁓blutters? 1893 Northumbld. Gloss., Heather-bleater..It is also called mire-bleater and gutter-snipe. |