wheater

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Noun

wheater (plural wheaters)

  1. Misspelling of wheatear (“bird”).
    • 1801, John Walker, Arthur Kershaw, The Universal Gazetteer, page 19:
      It is particularly famous for its wheaters, a small bird, of the size of a lark, not much inferior to an ortolane, which is taken on the SE.
    • 1813, Elijah Parish, Sacred Geography:
      The people have plenty of patridges, woodcocks, snipes, thrushes, woodpigeons, turtle doves, wheaters, and poultry.
    • 1987, The Geographical Magazine, page 572:
      As less and less of the Downs is used as traditional pasture and more grassland is turned over to arable agriculture, the once-common wildlife species – the Adonis Blue and Chalkhill Blue butterflies, grasshoppers and the wheater bird, for example – are fast disappearing.

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