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titlark
[ tit-lahrk ]
noun
- any of several small, larklike birds, especially a pipit.
titlark
/ ˈtɪtˌlɑːk /
noun
- another name for the pipit, esp the meadow pipit ( Anthus pratensis )
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
The melody of singing birds ranks as follows: The nightingale first, then the linnet, titlark, sky lark and wood lark.
Hearing a titlark singing his loudest, I found him perched on the rim of a tub placed for horses to drink from.
On inquiry I found that some weeks before, the boys discovered a titlark's nest in the ground close to their cricket-piece.
The scene of the tragedy was the nest of a pipit, or titlark, on the ground beneath a heather-bush.
In figure it is more slender than the sky-lark; the plumage resembles that of the crested lark, and the form that of the titlark.
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