TARROCK

Etymology

Noun

tarrock (plural tarrocks)

(Northern Scotland) a young kittiwake.

(UK, dialect) The common guillemot.

(UK, dialect) The common tern.

Anagrams

• art rock, rock rat

Source: Wiktionary


Tar"rock, n. Etym: [Greenland tattarock.] (Zoöl.) (a) The young of the kittiwake gull before the first molt. (b) The common guillemot. [Prov. Eng.] (c) The common tern.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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