Word Meanings - WITCHUCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The sand martin, or bank swallow.

Related words: (words related to WITCHUCK)

• MARTIN
  A perforated stone-faced runner for grinding.
• MARTINETISM
  The principles or practices of a martinet; rigid adherence to discipline, etc.
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• MARTINMAS
  The feast of St. Martin, the eleventh of November; -- often called martlemans. Martinmas summer, a period of calm, warm weather often experienced about the time of Martinmas; Indian summer. Percy Smith.
• SWALLOW
  Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidæ, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. Note:
• MARTINGALE; MARTINGAL
  A lower stay of rope or chain for the jib boom or flying jib boom, fastened to, or reeved through, the dolphin striker. Also, the dolphin striker itself. (more info) martingala a sort of hose, martingale, Sp. martingala a greave, 1. A
• MARTINETA
  A species of tinamou , having a long slender crest.
• SWALLOWER
  One who swallows; also, a glutton. Tatler.
• SWALLOWWORT
  See Celandine. A poisonous plant of the Milkweed family, at one time used in medicine; -- also called white swallowwort. African swallowwort, a plant of the genus Stapelia.
• MARTINET
  In military language, a strict disciplinarian; in general, one who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or
• SWALLOWTAIL
  A kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. See Dovetail.
• SWALLOW-TAILED
  United by dovetailing; dovetailed. Swallow-tailed duck , the old squaw. -- Swallow-tailed gull , an Arctic gull , which has a deeply forked tail. -- Swallow-tailed hawk or kite , the fork-tailed kite. -- Swallow-tailed moth , a European moth
• SEA SWALLOW
  See CHOUGH (more info) The common tern. The storm petrel. The gannet.
• BANK SWALLOW
  See N
• FREE-MARTIN
  An imperfect female calf, twinborn with a male.
• SIEMENS-MARTIN PROCESS
  See OPEN
• SIEMENS-MARTIN STEEL
  See OPEN