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jarr-owl
jar-owl, jarr-owl [jar n.1 8.] A local name of the goatsucker or night-jar.1832–5 Jesse Gleanings (1843) 297 The Caprimulgus is known in different parts of England by the names of the dor-hawk,..jarr-owl, churn-owl,..and night-jarr.
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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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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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