plover

About 0.27 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Any of various wading birds of the subfamily Charadriinae.
2. noun A masked lapwing (Vanellus miles).
3. verb To dote over, or, crowd or nestle with
4. verb To hunt for plover.
5. verb To wade along the shore, examining the sand like a plover does.

Similar words

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Often followed by

and is in bay charadrius cove was are on

Word family

plovers