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corn-crake
corn-crake (ˈkɔːnkreɪk) Also 6–9 -craik, 8 -creak, -crek. [f. corn n.1 + crake.] 1. A name (originally Scottish) of the bird also called Landrail, Crex pratensis, found in summer in the British Islands; it lives concealed among standing corn and the grass of the hayfields, whence its harsh grating v...
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Corn crake
The corn crake, corncrake or landrail (Crex crex) is a bird in the rail family. It breeds in Europe and Asia as far east as western China, and migrates to Africa for the Northern Hemisphere's winter. It is a medium-sized crake with buff- or grey-streaked brownish-black upperparts, chestnut markings ...
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corn-craker
corn-craker Also -cracker. A local variant of corn-crake in W. of Scotland.1703 M. Martin West. Isles 71 (in Pennant) Corn-craker. 1802–33 G. Montagu Ornith. Dict. (1833) 103. 1885 in Swainson Provinc. Names Birds.
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crake
▪ I. crake, n. (kreɪk) Also Sc. craik. [In sense 1, app. a. ON. krâka f. crow, krâkr m. raven (Norw. kraake, Sw. kråka, Da. krage, crow); cf. also Ger. dial. krâke, kracke, krack in same sense: see Grimm. Of echoic origin: cf. croak. In sense 2, perh. orig. the same word (corn crake = corn crow), bu...
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Game pie
her 1861 Book of Household Management, giving simple recipes for grouse and partridge pie and for preparing other common game such as wild duck, hare, corn-crake
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daker-hen
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 Aristo...
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Taxonomy of the vertebrates (Young, 1962)
Gruiformes [rails] (e.g., Fulica [coot], Gallinula [moorhen], Crex [corn-crake], Grus [crane], †Phororhacos, †Diatryma)
Order 10.
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landrail
landrail (ˈlændreɪl) [See rail n.; cf. water-rail. So G. landralle.] The corn-crake, Crex pratensis.1766 Pennant Zool. (1768) II. 387 The land rail lays from twelve to twenty eggs, of a dull white color, marked with a few yellow spots. 1828 Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. I. 302 The Land-Rail is a migratory ...
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skulker
skulker (ˈskʌlkə(r)) Also 4, 6 sculker(e, 4 scolker, 5 sculcare, Sc. scoukar. [f. prec. + -er1. Cf. MSw. skulkare, Norw. skulkar.] 1. One who skulks, in various senses. † Also as a name for the hare.13.. Names of Hare in MS. Digby 168 b, Þe wint-swifft, þe sculkere, Þe hare-serd, þe heg roukere. 138...
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meadow
▪ I. meadow, n. (ˈmɛdəʊ) Forms: 1 sing. (oblique cases) mǽdwe, médwa, pl. mǽdwa, 3 meduwe, 3–4 midu, 3–5 medwe, 3–6 medewe, 4–5 medou, medoe, medew, 4–6 medo, 4–7 medow(e, 5 medue, meedewe, mydew(e, 5–6 middow, 6 medoy, me(a)ddowe, myddoe, 6–7 middow, meadowe, 7 Sc. meadou, 6– meadow. [repr. OE. mǽd...
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corne
▪ I. corn, n.1 (kɔːn) Also 3 coren, 4 korn(e, 4–7 corne, 5 (9 dial.) coorn; Sc. curn. [Common Teut.: OE. corn corresponds to OFris. korn (E.Fris. kôrn, kôren), OS. corn (MDu. coorn, coren, Du. koren), OHG. chorn, choron (MHG. korn, koren, mod.G. korn), ON. (Sw., Da.) korn, Gothic kaurn n.:—OTeut. *k...
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cracker
cracker (ˈkrækə(r)) Also 6 crakar, 6–7 craker. [f. crack v. + -er1.] One who or that which cracks (in any of the senses of the vb.). 1. gen.1625 B. Jonson Staple of News Prol. for Crt., To scholars..above the vulgar sort Of nut-crackers, that only come for sight. 1842 Dickens Amer. Notes (1850) 14/1...
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rye
▪ I. rye, n.1 (raɪ) Forms: 1 ryᵹi, ryᵹe, 4 ruȝe, reye, 4–6 ry, 5–8 rie, 5– rye (7 rey, rhie). [OE. ryᵹe, = ON. rug-r (Fær. rug-ur, Norw. rug; MSw. rugh, rogh, rygh, Sw. råg; MDa. rugh, roug, roff, Da. rug):—original *rugiz. (The long vowel of mod.Icel. r{uacu}gur, Norw. dial. ruug, is of later origi...
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grass
▪ I. grass, n.1 (grɑːs, -æ-) Forms: α. 1 græs, (pl. grasu), 3–5 gres, 3–6 gras, (3 grace, graes, 4 grece, grees), 4 gris(e, 4, 6 griss(e, 4–6 gress(e, 4–7 grasse, (5 graas, grase, graz), 6– grass. β. 1 gærs, gers, subsequently Sc. and north. dial. 4, 6–9 gers(e, 4–6 gyrs(s, 5–6 gyrse, 5, 9 girss, 6,...
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