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Definition of Limpkins
1. limpkin [n] - See also: limpkin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Limpkins
Literary usage of Limpkins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. George Riddle's Readings by George Riddle (1888)
"Mr. limpkins. Our dreadful east wind, Miss Sally, how it sweeps away sentiment!
... Mr. limpkins. Beg your pardon, Miss Sally; those are apple blossoms ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1915)
"The next morning, after making skins of a couple of limpkins that Tom had collected
the night before, we started for the middle of the swamp, above which we ..."
3. The Sportsman's Gazetteer and General Guide: The Game Animals, Birds and by Charles Hallock (1877)
"The panic once very abundant has been much depleted by wanton destruction.
There are still found in fair numbers limpkins, water-turkeys, herons, ..."
4. The Birds of Eastern North America Known to Occur East of the Nineteenth by Charles Barney Cory, Field Museum of Natural History (1899)
"limpkins. Bill, over 3 inches long; tarsus, under 7; wing, under 16; toes, four,
no comb-like edge on inner side of middle toe nail; hind toe, raised above ..."
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