Whaap

(Zool.) The European curlew; - called also awp, whaup, great whaup, and stock whaup.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

References in periodicals archive

Half a dozen villages surround the Koniambo Massif (Figure 3), which straddles the Hoot ma Whaap and Paici/Cemuki Customary Regions.

Daily, immediate conflicts: an analysis of villagers' arguments about a multinational nickel mining project in New Caledonia (1)

I heard the noise--whaap whaap whaap--of my knuckles on my flesh.

Trying to return

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