birdnest
English edit
Noun edit
birdnest (plural birdnests)
- Alternative form of bird's nest
Verb edit
birdnest (third-person singular simple present birdnests, present participle birdnesting, simple past and past participle birdnested)
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or nestle in a bird's nest
- 1869, James Grant, The Girl He Married, volume 2, page 122:
- Lennard knew well every nook, crevice, and shelf of the quarry; on many a day in boyhood he had birdnested among the gorse that fringed its mouth, or fished for minnows and "pow-wowets" with a luggie and string in the slimy pool at the bottom; […]
- (intransitive) To become entangled or dishevelled, like a bird's nest
- 1999, T.D. Burchell, Carbon Materials for Advanced Technologies, page 164:
- As currently produced, this type of fiber is entangled, or birdnested, and resembles cotton (except for the color).
- (intransitive) To collect eggs from bird's nests