noun. Any of various widely distributed shorebirds of the family Charadriidae, having rounded bodies, short tails, and short bills.

noun. Any of various similar or related birds.

noun. A bird of the family Charadriidæ and genus Charadrius, C. pluvialis.

noun. Hence Some or any bird of the family Charadriidæ; a charadriomorphic grallatorial bird.

noun. In various parts of the United States, the Bartramian sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda, more fully called upland, highland, pasture, field, corn-field, prairie, grass, and plain plover. See cut under Bartramia.

noun. The greater or lesser yellowshanks, Totanus melanoleucus or T. flavipes, commonly called yellow-legged plovers. [Local, U. S.] A loose woman: otherwise called a quail.

noun. The black-heart plover. [Local, U. S.]

noun. The golden plover when young. [Ireland.]

noun. Sqvatarola helvetica

noun. The Norfolk plover. [Various localities.]

noun. Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds belonging to the family Charadridæ, and especially those belonging to the subfamily Charadrinsæ. They are prized as game birds.

noun. Any grallatorial bird allied to, or resembling, the true plovers, as the crab plover (Dromas ardeola); the American upland, plover (Bartramia longicauda); and other species of sandpipers.

noun. the lapwing.

noun. See Tattler.

noun. undefined

noun. the dunlin.

noun. the black-bellied plover.

noun. undefined

noun. The black-bellied plover.

noun. Any of various wading birds of the family Charadriidae.

noun. any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers

"Sometimes we shot so-called plover along on the shore, sometimes wild chicken in the bush."

American golden plover  bastard plover  bishop plover  black-bellied plover  black-breasted plover  

stone plover  yellow-legged plover  

limicoline bird  shore bird  shorebird  

charadrius melodus  charadrius morinellus  charadrius vociferus  dotrel  dotterel  

Discover  Glover  Shover  cover  discover  

bittern  blackbird  cuckoo  curlew  egret