Sekirov Dictionary

plover

UK /ˈplʌvə/US /ˈplʌvɚ/

verb 3
noun 2
forms 3

verb3

•
To hunt for plover.
- There is a handsome prospect from the plains, which render very good shooting in the season of plovering. — 1865
•
To wade along the shore, examining the sand like a plover does.
- Men with nothing to do plovered the sand - edge with clam rakes that raked nothing. — 1971
•
To dote over, or, crowd or nestle with
- Invisible twine plying merchants are unravelling the long grasses and the plovering pull of the long windstrewngrasses pluck the prince in his chest his heart his passion and love as if no tomorrow. — 1997

noun2

Any of various wading birds of the subfamily Charadriinae.
(Australia) A masked lapwing (Vanellus miles).

forms

plovered · plovering · plovers

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