Crocker2. World English Historical Dictionary

Crocker2. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Crocker2

A local name of the Black-headed Gull.

1

  (The 16th c. crocard may be the same word.)

2

a 1547.  in Househ. Ord. (1790), 223. Crocards and Oliffs, 3s. 4d. [See Archæol., III. 157.]

3

1885.  Swainson, Prov. Names Birds, 209. Black-headed Gull (Larus ridibundus)—Crocker.

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