Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
pickmaw .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. The pewit, or black-headed gull.
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- noun UK, dialect, dated The
peewit , or black-headedgull .
Etymologies
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pick + mire, so called from its picking its food from the mire.
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