Gull

Definitions

1. A seabird of the genus Larus or of the subfamily Larinae.
2. A cheating trick; a fraud.
   slang
3. A breach or hole made by the force of a torrent; fissure, chasm.
   dialectal
4. A player, supporter or other person connected with Torquay United Football Club.
5. A surname.
6. Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Cepora.
7. A stupid animal.
8. A channel made by a stream; a natural watercourse; running water.
   dialectal
9. One easily cheated; a dupe.
10. A swindler or trickster.
    obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“The tide was out, and we drew up amid the strong bracing smell⟳ of seaweed, with gulls screeching, wheeling around, and gliding on the wind.”

“Most gulls don’t bother to learn⟳ more than the simplest facts of flight—how to get⟳ from shore to food and back again.[…]For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.”

“BENEDICK. [Aside] I should think⟳ this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it: knavery cannot, sure, hide⟳ itself in such reverence.”

“You'll excuse⟳ me, sir, but as you are fresh, take⟳ care to avoid⟳ the gulls; they fly⟳ about here in large flocks, I assure you, and do no little mischief at times." "I never understood that gulls were birds of prey," said I.—"Only in Oxford, sir; and here, I assure you, they bite⟳ like⟳ hawks, and pick⟳ many a poor young gentleman as bare before his three years are expired, as the crows would a dead sheep upon a common. […]"”

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