单词 | marlet |
释义 | † marlet Obs. Also 6 -ett(e, 7 -ot. [a. OF. merlette the heraldic martlet, app. a dim. of merle blackbird.] A martin or martlet.
1556Withals Dict. (1568) 5 a/1 A marlette, whiche is of the quantitee of a swalow, hauying no feete to go, but onely stumpes, cypsellus. 1578Cooper Thesaurus, Cypselus,..a byrde called a marlett [ed. 1565 martlette]. 1605Shakes. Macb. i. vi. 5 The Temple haunting Barlet [read Marlet]. 1645C. Morton Enquiry in Harl. Misc. (1810) V. 499 The summer birds that breed here, as the nightingale, the cuckow, marlot, &c. Ibid. 505 The swallow swift and marlet are almost always flying. |

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