chickell

chickell
\\ˈchikəl\ noun (-s)
Etymology: imitative

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ˈchickell
A name of the wheat-ear in Cornwall and Devon.
in Montagu Ornith. Dict. (ed. 1833). W. Bowles Banwell Hill iii. 525.

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