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sea-pie en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of sea pie (“food”).
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of sea pie (“bird”).
And the terns hovered over Tom like huge white dragon-flies with black heads, and the gulls laughed like girls at play, and the sea-pies, with their red bills and legs, flew to and fro from shore to shore, and whistled sweet and wild.
1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby:
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