water crow

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English

Etymology

So called in allusion to its dark plumage.

Noun

water crow (plural water crows)

  1. The dipper (bird).
  2. The European coot.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 water crow”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)