Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of reddish gadfly, or breeze.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Zoöl.) The botfly or gadfly of cattle (
Hypoderma bovis ). Seegadfly .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
botfly orgadfly ofcattle (Hypoderma bovis).
Etymologies
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From its reddish colour. See burrel.
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