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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A spur-winged bird.
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The difficulty of shooting them was, that the falcons and spurwing-plovers would hover round the pit, when the crocodiles invariably took to the water.
The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries Francis Galton 1866
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