pickmire

pickmire
[pickmire
an erroneous book-name for the pickmaw: prob. a copyist's or printer's error.
Appears in Bewick's Brit. Birds, 1808, vol. II (not by Bewick) 226, whence in Montagu Ornith. Dict. 1812, Swainson Prov. Names Brit. Birds (E.D.S.), who erroneously locates it in Roxburghshire (where pick-maw is the name).
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  • Pickmire — Pick mire , n. [So called from its picking its food from the mire.] (Zo[ o]l.) The pewit, or black headed gull. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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