water-witch

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A grebe

   “... bird was never seen again, dead or alive. There was a mystery about it , and when some one older and wiser than he told him it was a water witch or hell diver, the mystery was only half solved. Where did it go? How could it stay[…] Fortunately for the dabchick, […]”

2. isim In particular, the pied-billed grebe.

   “The Hell Diver seen was probably the Pied Bill Grebe, […] it surely is a water witch and has disappeared.”

3. isim The storm petrel.

   “Ten or fifteen dark little birds […] these are "Mother Carey's chickens," the "water-witches," Stormy Petrels, which are so familiar to the eye of the sailor, and the sight of which he dreads so much; […]”

4. isim Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: a witch who lives in, controls, is able to dowse or find, or is otherwise connected with, water.

   “[…] plays with the stormy petrel, / And answers the sea-gull's call. […] the water-witch, gray and ancient, / And hearing the tales she tells.”