Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as lapwing.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) The lapwing.

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Examples

  • Their language was a rushed sibilance, a strange whisper - tongue, yet he recognized it: "He let the flopwing get away!

    In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984

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