sand martin en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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A migratory passerine bird of the swallow family, Riparia riparia.
1774, Gilbert White, Letter 20 in The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, London: B. White & Son, 1789, p. 175, The only instance I ever remember where this species haunts any building is at the town of Bishop’s Waltham, in this county, where many sand-martins nestle and breed in the scaffold-holes of the back-wall of William of Wykeham’s stables:
The sandmartins’ nests were loopholes of darkness in the riverbank.
1975, Seamus Heaney, “Nesting-Ground”, in New Selected Poems, 1966-1987, London: Faber and Faber, published 1990, page 42:The position was perched on a sort of razor-back of limestone with dug-outs driven horizontally into the cliff like sand-martins’ nests.
1938, George Orwell, chapter 4, in Homage to Catalonia, Boston: The Beacon Press, published 1955, page 38:1668, John Wilkins, An Essay Towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language, London: Sa. Gellibrand and John Martyn, Part 2, Chapter 5, p. 151, SAND-MARTIN, Shore-bird.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| sand martins | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
brown-throated martin · pale sand martin
Synonyms
European sand martin (Riparia riparia) · collared sand martin (Riparia riparia) · bank swallow (Riparia riparia)
Translations (28)
nl oeverzwaluw (bird) · eo bordhirundo (bird) · chr ᏦᏯᎦ (bird) · taa cha' nudha (bird) · izh liivapääskö (bird) · cs břehule (bird) · ro lăstun de mal (bird) · tfn vestʼugh kałja (bird) · et kaldapääsuke (bird) · gd gobhlan-gainmhich (bird) · ca oreneta de ribera (bird) · es avión zapador (bird) · pt andorinha-das-barreiras (bird) · ru берегову́шка (bird) · it topino (bird) · es golondrina zapadora (bird) · sv backsvala (bird) · tr kum kırlangıcı (bird) · ang stæ︀︀þswealwe (bird) · hu partifecske (bird) · fr hirondelle de rivage (bird) · ca culblanc de ribera (bird) · de Uferschwalbe (bird) · fi törmäpääsky (bird) · ga gabhlán gainimh (bird) · izh savipääskö (bird) · ru берегова́я ла́сточка (bird) · cy gwennol y glennydd (bird)