Crossword-Solution: WHIMBREL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Whimbrel | n. | Any one of several species of small curlews, especially the European species (Numenius phaeopus), called also Jack curlew, half curlew, stone curlew, and tang whaup. See Illustration in Appendix. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| EUROPEAN curlew | 1 answer |
| small European curlew with a striped head | 1 answer |
| Curlew. | 5 answers |
| Shore bird | 35 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with WHIMBREL (5)
Then Ralph looked round upon the land, which had now worsened again, and was little better than rough moorland, little fed, and not at all tilled, and he said: "This is but a sorry land for earth's increase." "Well," said the captain, "I wot not; it beareth plover and whimbrel and conies and hares; yea, and men withal, some few.
Down on the firm greensward there was indeed a herd of wild horses feeding; mallard and coot swam about the waters; the whimbrel laughed from the bent-sides, and three herons stood on the side of the causeway seeking a good fishing-stead.
The moon was rising over it, and he heard the voice of the brook as it tinkled over the stones above him; and the whistle of the plover and the laugh of the whimbrel came down the dale sharp and clear in the calm evening; and sounding far away, because the great hill muffled them, were the voices of his fellows on the ridge, and the songs of the warriors and the high-pitched cries of the watch.
For the rest, the whimbrel laughed across the mires; high up in heaven a great eagle was hanging; once and again a grey fox leapt up before them, and the heath-fowl whirred up from under Face-of-god’s feet.
These were the birds we sought after in winter; but we could shoot for the table all the year round, for no sooner was it the duck's pairing and breeding season than another bird-population from their breeding- grounds in the arctic and sub-arctic regions came on the scene-- plover, sandpiper, godwit, curlew, whimbrel,--a host of northern species that made the summer-dried pampas their winter abode.