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Anglo-Saxon

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pur

  • noun
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a bittern(?)
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  • Hæferblǽte vel pur

    bicoca,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 21, 42.
  • Ráradumbla, ðæt is pur

    onocrotalus,

      62, 21.
Etymology
[Purre two sea-birds, the tern and the black-headed gull; pirre-, pyr-maw a sea-bird, E. D. S. Publ. Antrim and Down Glossary.]
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