tarrock

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Etymology

Perhaps ultimately from Greenlandic taateraaq (“kittiwake”).

Noun

tarrock (plural tarrocks)

  1. (Northern Scotland) A young kittiwake.
  2. (Scotland, dialect) The common guillemot.
  3. (Scotland, dialect) The common tern.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tarrock”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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