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eve-churr
ˈeve-churr Also 7 -churre, 8 -chair, -chier, -chur. [f. eve n.1 + churr: see churr-worm.] † 1. The Mole-Cricket; also called churr-worm, fen-cricket. ? Obs.1658 Rowland Moufet's Theat. Ins. 1018 Of the Fen-Kricket, the Eve-churre, or the Chur-worm..we may call it Gryllotalpa; a Mole-kricket. 1668 Wi...
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churr-worm
ˈchurr-worm [See quot. 1868. But Bailey and others explained the name f. OE. cierran, cyrran to turn, ‘because it turneth quick about’.] A local name of the Mole-Cricket.1668 Wilkins Real Char. ii. v. §2. 124. 1726 Dict. Rust. (ed. 3), Eve-Churr or Churr-Worm, a kind of Insect. 1868 Wood Homes witho...
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eve
▪ I. eve, n.1 (iːv) Forms: (3 heve, 4 ave), 6–7 eeve, (7 eave, yeave), 3– eve. [var. of even n. (orig. 2 syll.); for the loss of the final n cf. morrow.] 1. = evening n.1 lit. and fig. poet. or rhetorical.a 1250 Owl & Night. 432 Thu singest from eve fort a morȝe. c 1300 St. Brandan 214 The foweles t...
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nightjar
ˈnightjar [f. night n. + jar n.1] 1. A common nocturnal bird, Caprimulgus europæus (see goatsucker), so called from the peculiar whirring noise, something like that of a large spinning wheel, which the male makes during the period of incubation. Similar names are night-churr (cf. Norw. dial. nattekö...
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