pickmire

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

pick +‎ mire, so called from its picking its food from the mire.

Noun[edit]

pickmire (plural pickmires)

  1. (UK, dialect, dated) The peewit, or black-headed gull.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pickmire”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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