windsucker

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A horse with the habit of windsucking.
2. isim The common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus).

   “At the ſame time (over and above) ſhee thought that, in ſtead of a boye, (which ſhe desired) ſhe was deliverd and brought to bed of one of theſe kiſtrell birds, called a wind-ſucker.”

3. isim A term of abuse.

   “Cle[rimont] Did you ever hear ſuch a Wind-ſucker, as this? / Dau[phine] Or ſuch a Rook as the other! that will betray his Maſter to be ſeen. Come, 'tis time we prevented it.”