plover

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plover^¹

/ˈplʌvɚ/ US
/ˈploʊvɚ/ US
/ˈplʌvə/ UK

Rhymes with -əʊvə(ɹ), -ʌvə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English plover, from Anglo-Norman plover, plovier, from Medieval Latin plovarius, pluviārius, of disputed origin; perhaps from Latin pluvia (“rain”).

noun plovers · plover

Any of various wading birds of the subfamily Charadriinae.
Australia A masked lapwing (Vanellus miles).

verb plovers · plovering · plovered

To dote over, or, crowd or nestle with Invisible twine plying merchants are unravelling the long grasses and the plovering pull of the long windstrewngrasses pluck the prince in his chest his heart his passion and love as if no tomorrow.
To hunt for plover. Gentlemen often came from Dublin, and payed me for going into the Channel with them a plovering and fishing, and going aboard of Ships in the Bay; but once among the rest, some of these Chaps came to hire my Smack, to go into the Bay, which I let them have to my Sorrow;
To wade along the shore, examining the sand like a plover does. Men with nothing to do plovered the sand - edge with clam rakes that raked nothing.

Plover^²

proper noun

A minor city in Pocahontas County, Iowa, United States, named for the bird.
A town in Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States.
A town and village in Portage County, Wisconsin.

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noun wading bird of the family Charadriidae

Español	chorlo, chorlito, chorlitejo
한국어	물떼새 multtesae
日本語	千鳥 chidori
中文	千鳥 /千鸟 qiānniǎo, 鴴 /鸻 héng
Kiswahili	kiluwiluwi
Português	tarambola, borrelho
Français	pluvier
Deutsch	Regenpfeifer
Italiano	caradrio
Română	ploier, fluierar
Русский	зуёк zujók, ржа́нка ržánka
Tiếng Việt	choi choi
עברית	חוֹפָמִי ḥofamí

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@misc{plover_2026,
  title = {plover},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/plover},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}