sanderling
(ˈsændəlɪŋ)
Also 7 sanderlin, 7, 9, sandling.
[Possibly repr. OE. *sand-yrðling, f. sand sand n.1 + yrðling ploughman (see earthling1), also the name of some bird (? the plover).]
A small wading bird, Calidris arenaria.
| 1602 Carew Cornwall 35 Coots, Sanderlings, Sea-larkes. 1623 N. H. in Whitbourne Newfoundland 114 The Fowles and Birds..of the Sea are..Teale, Snipes,..Sanderlins. 1684 E. Chamberlayne Pres. St. Eng. (ed. 15) 6 Sandlings, knot, curlew. 1785 Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. 197 Sanderling, Charadrius calidris, Lin. 1804 C. Smith Conversations, etc. II. 34, I rather think, Sanderling,..is the name..tho' the fishermen call them Sandlings. 1856 Kane Arct. Expl. I. xx. 259 A sanderling, the second migratory land-bird we have seen, came to our brig today. 1873 Longfellow Wayside Inn iii. Prel. 77 The plover, peep, and sanderling, That..pipe along the barren sands. |