plover — English Dictionary

Noun

1. Any of various wading birds of the subfamily Charadriinae.

2. A masked lapwing (Vanellus miles).

   Usage

   • Australia

Verb

1. To dote over, or, crowd or nestle with

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   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.

   I would blanch, I would quail and, maybe in that season, I would have plovered — plovered my head deep into my feathers and plovered away on thin, wading bird's legs.

   Our Dove's a fat man's tits plovering a T - shirt;

2. To hunt for plover.

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   Gentlemen often came from Dublin, and payed me for going into the Channel with them a plovering and fishing, and going aboard of Ships in the Bay; but once among the rest, some of these Chaps came to hire my Smack, to go into the Bay, which I let them have to my Sorrow;

   There is a handsome prospect from the plains, which render very good shooting in the season of plovering.

   Brisler went Yesterday a plovering with a Party who killed about an hundred.

3. To wade along the shore, examining the sand like a plover does.

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   Men with nothing to do plovered the sand - edge with clam rakes that raked nothing.

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   Blathwyte indicates the scale of another population of waders through recording an annual crop of 250 Lapwing eggs Vanellus vanellus being taken by 'plovering' gamekeepers.

   If we can let the plovers do their plovering thing, then perhaps, instead of rejecting our human weirdnesses, we embrace them.

Noun

1. any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers

   Broader terms

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