dotterel
noun
any of several plovers usually inhabiting upland areas, especially Eudromias morinellus, of Europe and Asia.
dottrel
-
a variation of
dotterel.
Example Sentences
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You have springed your dottrel, I find, and what is the consequence?—why, that there will be hue and cry after you presently.
From Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott
And he galloped on, as cheery as a boy, shouting at the rabbits as they scuttled from under his feet, and laughing at the dottrel as they postured and anticked on the mole-hills.
From Hereward, the Last of the English by Charles Kingsley
"Nobody wants to hear what you said, you dottrel; what more did she say?"
From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
This is done by the male wood-pigeon, missel-thrush, blue martin, the buzzard, stone-curlew, curlew, dottrel, the sandpiper, common gull, black-coated gull, kittiwake, razorbill, puffin, storm-petrel, the great blue heron and the black vulture.
From The Truth About Woman by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley
