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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
seagull
noun
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▪ A seagull shrieks at you out of the blue.
▪ As Ruth tried to find an answer, a faint lost crying sounded far above, like seagulls.
▪ He held out one fat arm and tried to catch a seagull flying low.
▪ I ... I ... Look at that seagull up there.
▪ There are seagulls, he says, and terns and storks and cockatoos.
▪ We were woken at the crack of dawn by the pitter patter of seagulls as they pecked for their breakfast.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
seagull

1540s, from sea + gull (n.).

Wiktionary
seagull

n. 1 Any of several white, often dark backed birds of the family ''Laridae'' having long pointed wings and short legs. 2 (context orthography English) The symbol (term ̼  ̼  Translingual), which combines under a letter as a sort of accent. 3 (context UK slang English) A fan or member of http://en.wikipedi

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  2. 1 (context British Australia New Zealand rugby slang of a forward English) To run in the back line rather than concentrate on primary positional duties in open play. 2 (context boating slang English) To use a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Seagull outboard. 3 (context New Zealand English) To work as a non-union casual stevedore.

WordNet
seagull

n. mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs [syn: gull, sea gull]

Wikipedia
Seagull (disambiguation)

Seagull or Sea Gull is a common, informal, name for Gulls, sea birds in the family Laridae

Seagull may also refer to:

Seagull (company)

Seagull is a Canadian company and sub-brand of Godin Guitars that produces acoustic guitars. Brian, otherwise known as Bran, is the owner of the company. Born out of La Patrie, a small village in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, this company handcrafts acoustic guitars targeted towards working musicians. Established in 1982 by Robert Godin and a few of his friends, this company specializes in making acoustic guitars with solid tops as opposed to laminated tops.

Usage examples of "seagull".

DJ is spinning Duran Duran, Eurythmics, and Flock of Seagulls, songs to which Aaron does not listen but knows are popular.

They walked slightly bent forward, their feet appearing to have something of the same splayfooted design of seagull feet except without any webbing between the toes.

Uncle on the low tideflats, out where the seagulls clustered in great flocks.

Squinting against the cold gale blowing in his face, the cardsmith recognized sooty seagulls, wide-winged albatrosses, tiny black-masked terns, long-necked cormorants, fat pelicans: birds built for gliding great distances, that could cross vast oceans without weakening and dying.

Seagulls circled overhead, while two ospreys piped at each other in a nest on top of a concrete utility pole.

The dog went on running about at the edge of the water, busy with seagulls, though it turned when they did and ran about again, going the other way, and the sea never came nearer.

A pair of seagulls scratched the dull mid-morning with their screaming overhead.

Anna found herself with a talent for stone throwing, too, and brought down seagulls and complacent pigeons and once a feral cat.

I remember seagulls-throwing bread in the air for seagulls, hundreds of them, the whole sky becoming nothing but seagulls as they flapped their wings and snatched the bread from the air.

The traffic overhead made a constant low humming noise, and seagulls circled beneath the huge superstructure.

White seagulls soared against the grey sky, dived, and skimmed the whitecaps of the choppy Narrows.

Twenty or thirty feet over their heads, seagulls make a sound almost like mountain sheep bleating.

Breakfast Flock flashed through the air, till a crowd of a thousand seagulls came to dodge and fight for bits of food.

The weather turned sour, and it was blustery and rainy for the next two days as the Seagull doggedly pushed her way west.

Overcome with the shock of discovering his mistake, he went slightly bughouse, and seemed to imagine that he was a seagull.