10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HACKBOLT»
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A history of British birds
... Catalogue of the Birds of Devon. The latter is not a very common bird there,
which may have been the cause of such a mistake. " P. major is very well known
to the Scillonians, by whom it is called Hackbolt. They inform me it is a 504 LARlD
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The grammar of heraldry: containing I. Rules of blazoning, ...
Nunn, another; He -beareth Or,.i" Crofis engrai1'd Vert.Nurse' of" 0xj"o"2i)Eire;
The Field is 'Gt1ke's,,'a. Fefle between two Chevron'Arge'nt.- ' . X . . . . 5 . I _-.{) , (
Nuthall -of -Cbcjbizfe; He beareth At-' gent, a_S'hackbolt Sdble- This Bearing ...
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A Short and Easy Introduction to Heraldry, etc. (The fifth ...
T. 8, n; 21. SEjANT-A'DDORSED is when two beasts are fitting back ȝto back. T.
9, n.- 'I-I. SEME is an irregularflrewing, without nume. ber," all over the field. *P.7,
n. 31. SHACKBOLT, S'HACKBOLT, by some called a prisoner's bolt. P. 2, n.
Hugh Clark, Thomas WORMULL, 1788
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British Birds in Their Haunts
Hackbolt, the Greater Shearwater. Hadji, the Swift, 288. Ha'matopus ostralegus,
400. Hagdown, the Greater Shearwater. Haggard, the Peregrine Falcon. Hagister
, the Magpie. Halcyon days, 260. Half-Curlew, the Whimbrcl and God- wit. -Duck
...
Charles Alexander Johns, 1862
Greater Shearwater, Puffinus major, Cornish ; occasionally seen, and specimens
obtained from Mount's-bay, and well known at Scilly, where it goes by the name
of " hackbolt." Manx Shearwater, P. Anglorum, Cornish ; well known at ...
Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society, 1851
... churn-owl, cockatoo, cockerel, curassow, dabchick, didapper, dotterel, duckling
, dundiver, eagle-owl, falconet, fireback, firebird, flamingo, game-bird, game-cock,
garganey, greenlet, grosbeak, guacharo, hackbolt, hangbird, hawf1nch, ...
Stephen Curtis, Martin Manser, 2000
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The Chambers Dictionary
[See hagberry] hackbolt hak1 boll, n the greater shearwater. — Also hag'bott. hag
den. hag don or hag down (hag'din). [Origin obscure] hackbut hak but or hagbut
hag'but, (hist) n an arquebus. — n hackbuteer' [OFr haquebule, from ODu ...
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The English dialect dictionary
HACKBOLT, sb. Cor. The greater shearwater, Pulfinus major. Cor. Root) Birds (
1880) 314. Sc.I. In the Scilly islands, where they are called Hackbolts. they are
said to be yet more frequent, jonns Birds (1862) 601 ; S'vAINSON Birds (1885)
212.
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Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History
Occasionally seen, and specimens obtained from Mount's Bay ; well known at
Scilly, where it goes by the name of"hackbolt." Manx Shearwater. — Well known
at Scilly* where it annually breeds in rabbit-holes, — known there by the name of"
...
Edward Newman, James Edmund Harting, 1870
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The Birds of Cornwall and the Scilly Islands
This bird is known at Scilly as the " Hackbolt." In December 1874 and January
1875, two specimens of the Little Bustard were obtained, one at the Lizard, the
other near Looe. Every now and then these birds make their appearance, but I
have ...
Edward Hearle Rodd, James Edmund Harting, 1880
