Plover

Quick meaning: Plover is a noun meaning Any of various wading birds of the subfamily Charadriinae.

Meaning

Any of various wading birds of the subfamily Charadriinae.

More Meanings

1. (Australia) A masked lapwing (Vanellus miles).
2. To dote over, or, crowd or nestle with
3. To hunt for plover.
4. To wade along the shore, examining the sand like a plover does.

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

Word Forms

• plovers
• plovering
• plovered

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include killdeer, piping, semipalmated, species, upland, shooting.

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