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eve-jar
eve-jar [f. eve n.1 + jar.] = evechurr 2.1789 G. White Selborne (1853) 356 A notion that the fern⁓owl or eve-jarr..is very injurious to weanling calves. 1883 Hampsh. Gloss., Eve-jar, the goat-sucker.
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European nightjar
summer nights, as in George Meredith's "Love in the Valley";
Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-notes unvaried
Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar
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jar
▪ I. jar, n.1 (dʒɑː(r)) Forms: 6 gerre, 6–7 iarre, 7–8 jarr, 6– jar. [Goes with jar v.1 Sense 7 appears to be independently taken from the vb.; and in sense 8 there may be an independent operation of the same echoic or onomatopœic process which gave rise to the vb. and n.] I. A sound or vibration. 1...
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