darr

English

Etymology

Possibly from dorrhawk (the nightjar) from its similar diet and appearance in flight.

Noun

darr (plural darrs)

  1. (UK, dialect, Norfolk) A bird, the European black 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Last modified on 18 March 2012, at 14:12