seamew
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English semewe, semawe (“seagull”), equivalent to sea + mew (“gull”).
Noun[edit]
seamew (plural seamews)
- The common gull (Larus canus).
- 1849, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H., canto CXV:
- Now dance the lights on lawn and lea,
The flocks are whiter down the vale,
And milkier every milky sail
On winding stream or distant sea;
Where now the seamew pipes, or dives
In yonder greening gleam, and fly
The happy birds, that change their sky
To build and brood