stork

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It must be understood that the stork is the favorite bird of Holland; the bird of good fortune, like the swallow; welcome to all, because it makes war upon toads and frogs; that the peasants plant poles with circular floor of wood on top to attract them to make their nests, and that in some towns they may be seen walking in the streets.

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  1. noun Any of various large wading birds of the family Ciconiidae, chiefly of the Eastern Hemisphere, having long legs and a long straight bill.

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  • "If they intend to trade Monk to us for the stork, they will probably phone us here," he said. —  148 - The Terrible Stork
  • I knew they were coming to New York after something they called a stork, and that they had taken Uncle Harky along so he wouldn't make trouble for them. —  148 - The Terrible Stork
  • It is of the same family as the stork, the heron and the ibis Why don't we see more animals The island is not, probably, large enough. —  The Wonder Island Boys: Adventures on Strange Islands
  • The old birds settled down over the broods, covered them with their wings, and one after another perished without another attempt to save themselves Illustration: A Swallow's Nest on the Crank of a Bell-wire What the stork is abroad, the swallow is, or ought to be, in England, honoured and admired. —  Chatterbox, 1905.
  • The stork, which is never molested, adds a picturesque feature to the Bulgarian village. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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  1. Middle English, from Old English storc; see ster-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English stork, from Anglo-Saxon store = D. Middle Low German Low German stork = Old High German storah, Middle High German G. storch (also Old High German store, Middle High German German dial. stork) = Icelandic storkr = Swedish Danish stork, a stork; cf. Old Bulgarian strŭkŭ, Bulgarian strŭk, shtrŭk = Servian shtrk = ORuss. sterkŭ, Russian sterkhŭ = Lithuanian starkus = Lett, stārks = Hung, eszterag = Albanian sterkjok, a stork. The relation of the Teutonic to the Slav. and other forms is undetermined. Cf. Greek τόργος, a vulture, τόργος ὑγρόφοιτις, a swan.
 

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