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jar-bird
ˈjar-bird [jar n.1 8.] Local name of the Nut-hatch.1768 G. White Selborne xvi. (1875) 60 My countrymen talk much of a bird that makes a clatter with his bill against a dead bough, or some old pales, calling it a jar-bird... It proved to be the Sitta europæa (nuthatch).
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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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flickke
▪ I. flick, n.1 (flɪk) [Echoic; cf. F. flicflac the cracking of a whip.] 1. a. A light blow, esp. one given with something pliant, a whip, etc., or with the finger-nail.1447 O. Bokenham Seyntys 85 Thy craft..is not worth a flykke. 1591 Percivall Sp. Dict., Cachete, a flicke in the cheeke. 1749 Field...
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