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Whimbrel   Listen
noun
Whimbrel  n.  (Zool.) Any one of several species of small curlews, especially the European species (Numenius phaeopus), called also Jack curlew, half curlew, stone curlew, and tang whaup.
Hudsonian whimbrel or Eskimo whimbrel, the Hudsonian curlew.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... wot not; it beareth plover and whimbrel and conies and hares; yea, and men withal, some few. And whereas it beareth naught else, that cometh of my lord's will: for deemest thou that he should suffer a rich land betwixt him and Goldburg, that it might sustain an host big ...
— The Well at the World's End • William Morris



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