Lexicographical Neighbors of Rotchie
Literary usage of Rotchie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic Seas: A Narrative of the Discovery of by Francis Leopold M'Clintock (1860)
"The rotchie, or little auk, lays its single egg upon the bare rock, far within
a crevice beyond the reach of fox, owl, or burgomaster gull. ..."
2. Interpleader in the High Court of Justice, and in the County Courts by Michael Cababé (1900)
"(rotchie v. The Golden Sovereigns, (1898) 2 QB 164, CA) If the sheriff be directed
to hold money to " abide the order of the judge of the County Court" to ..."
3. Provincial Names and Folk Lore of British Birds by Charles Swainson (1885)
"Also called rotchie or Rotch. Ratch (Shetland Isles). In Greenland it has the
name of Ice bird, being considered the harbinger of ice ; in Norway, ..."
4. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1897)
"London: 1896, 8vo, Part iv ; xii, Introduction and Index 1-124 : 833-1088 pp.
381. . Visitations of the rotchie or Little Auk. Sci. Gossip (2) ii, pp. ..."
5. The Orkneys and Shetland: Their Past and Present State by Tudor J. R., John Horne, William Irvine Fortescue, Peter White, Benjamin Nieve Peach (1883)
"... the Ringed Guillemot, the Little Auk, or rotchie, the Puffin, or Tammy Norie,
and the Razor-bill, or Willock, are very abundant or common. ..."
6. Dictionary of Hard Words by Robert Morris Pierce (1910)
"... n. little auk [also spelt rotch; synonymous cognates roach, rotchie] zet$.
rote n. (routine : as in by *rote) zoot. rotifer n. ..."
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