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Webster 1913 Edition


Pickmire

Pick′mireˊ

,
Noun.
[So called from its
picking
its food from the
mire
.]
(Zool.)
The pewit, or black-headed gull.
[Prov. Eng.]

Definition 2024


pickmire

pickmire

English

Noun

pickmire (plural pickmires)

  1. (Britain, dialect, dated) The peewit, or black-headed gull.