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Definition of Sea swallow
1. Noun. Common tern of Eurasia and America having white black and grey plumage.
Definition of Sea swallow
1. Noun. (U.K.) The common tern. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Sea swallow
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sea Swallow
Literary usage of Sea swallow
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue by Stopford Augustus Brooke, Thomas William Rolleston (1900)
"ABOARD THE 'SEA-SWALLOW' THE gloom of the sea-fronting cliffs Lay on the water,
violet-dark ... sea swallow."
2. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"They have no respiratory organs, and only four pairs of legs, which sea swallow.
See TEES. num littorale^. ..."
3. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1910)
"Sea-Swallow, bear us from the king-owned earth To those wild realms unruled that
gave us birth, To the waste regions of the restless brine, Whose life and ..."
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