See plover on Wiktionary
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"plover" }, "expansion": "Anglo-Norman plover", "name": "der" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "ML.", "3": "plovarius" }, "expansion": "Medieval Latin plovarius", "name": "der" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "la", "3": "pluvia", "4": "", "5": "rain" }, "expansion": "Latin pluvia (“rain”)", "name": "der" } ], "etymology_text": "Inherited from Middle English plover, from Anglo-Norman plover, plovier, from Medieval Latin plovarius, pluviārius, of disputed origin; perhaps from Latin pluvia (“rain”).", "forms": [ { "form": "plovers", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "plovering", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "plovered", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "plovered", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "plover (third-person singular simple present plovers, present participle plovering, simple past and past participle plovered)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "hyphenation": [ "plov‧er" ], "lang": "English", 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"ref": "1769, John Poulter, The Discoveries of John Poulter, Alias Baxter, page 5:", "text": "Gentlemen often came from Dublin, and payed me for going into the Channel with them a plovering and fishing, and going aboard of Ships in the Bay; but once among the rest, some of these Chaps came to hire my Smack, to go into the Bay, which I let them have to my Sorrow;", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1865, Henry Onderonk, Queens County in Olden Times, page 87:", "text": "There is a handsome prospect from the plains, which render very good shooting in the season of plovering.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1962, Diary and Autobiography of John Adam, page 244:", "text": "Brisler went Yesterday a plovering with a Party who killed about an hundred.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To hunt for plover." ], "links": [ [ "hunt", "hunt" ] ] }, { "categories": [ "English terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1971, John Ciardi, Lives of X., page 50:", "text": "Men with nothing to do plovered the sand - edge with clam rakes that raked nothing.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2021, Clive Chatters, Heathland:", "text": "Blathwyte indicates the scale of another population of waders through recording an annual crop of 250 Lapwing eggs Vanellus vanellus being taken by 'plovering' gamekeepers.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2021, Jeffrey Cohen, Stephanie Foote, The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities, page 282:", "text": "If we can let the plovers do their plovering thing, then perhaps, instead of rejecting our human weirdnesses, we embrace them.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To wade along the shore, examining the sand like a plover does." ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ˈplʌvɚ/", "tags": [ "General-American" ] }, { "ipa": "/ˈploʊvɚ/", "tags": [ "General-American" ] }, { "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-plover.wav", "mp3_url": 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"ML.", "3": "plovarius" }, "expansion": "Medieval Latin plovarius", "name": "der" } ], "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Anglo-Norman plover, plovier, from Medieval Latin plovarius, pluviārius.", "forms": [ { "form": "plovers", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "nouns", "g": "", "g2": "", "g3": "", "head": "", "sort": "" }, "expansion": "plover", "name": "head" }, { "args": {}, "expansion": "plover (plural plovers)", "name": "enm-noun" } ], "lang": "Middle English", "lang_code": "enm", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Middle English entries with incorrect language header", "Middle English lemmas", "Middle English nouns", "Middle English terms borrowed from Anglo-Norman", "Middle English terms derived from Anglo-Norman", "Middle English terms derived from Medieval Latin", "Pages with 3 entries", "Pages with entries", "enm:Birds" ], "glosses": [ "plover (bird of the family Charadriidae)" ], "links": [ [ "plover", "plover#English" ], [ "Charadriidae", "Charadriidae#Translingual" ] ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/pluˈveːr/" }, { "ipa": "/ˈpluvər/" } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "plewer" }, { "word": "pluver" }, { "word": "pluwer" }, { "word": "plovere" }, { "word": "ploware" }, { "tags": [ "Late-Middle-English" ], "word": "plowere" } ], "word": "plover" } { "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "fro", "2": "verb", "cat2": "impersonal verbs" }, "expansion": "plover", "name": "head" } ], "lang": "Old French", "lang_code": "fro", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "alt_of": [ { "word": "plovoir" } ], "categories": [ "Old French entries with incorrect language header", "Old French impersonal verbs", "Old French lemmas", "Old French verbs", "Pages with 3 entries", "Pages with entries" ], "glosses": [ "Alternative form of plovoir" ], "links": [ [ "plovoir", "plovoir#Old_French" ] ], "tags": [ "alt-of", "alternative" ] } ], "word": "plover" }
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