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sanderling

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Noun
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sand=er=ling

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun sanderling has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

sanderlingn. [Sand + -ling. So called because it obtains its food by searching the moist sands of the seashore.].
     A small gray and brown sandpiper (Calidris arenaria) very common on sandy beaches in America, Europe, and Asia. Called also curwillet, sand lark, stint, and ruddy plover.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sanderling, n. a small wading bird, Calidris alba, of the sandpiper family.

Etymology
perh. f. an OE form sandyrthling (unrecorded, as SAND + yrthling ploughman, also the name of a bird)
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