Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The great black-backed gull, or coffin-carrier, Larus marinus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. The black-backed gull (
Larus marinus ); -- called alsoswarbie .
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- noun UK, dialect The black-backed gull (Larus marinus), or swarbie.
Etymologies
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swart + back
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