Meaning of sand martin | Babel Free
Equivalents
Čeština
břehule
Deutsch
Uferschwalbe
Suomi
törmäpääsky
Gaeilge
gabhlán gainimh
Gàidhlig
gobhlan-gainmhich
Magyar
partifecske
Italiano
topino
Nederlands
oeverzwaluw
Polski
dołówka
Português
andorinha-das-barreiras
Română
lăstun de mal
Svenska
backsvala
Türkçe
kum kırlangıcı
Examples
“1668, John Wilkins, An Essay Towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language, London: Sa. Gellibrand and John Martyn, Part 2, Chapter 5, p. 151, SAND-MARTIN, Shore-bird.”
“1774, Gilbert White, Letter 20 in The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, London: B. White & Son, 1789, p. 175, The only instance I ever remember⟳ where this species haunts any building is at the town of Bishop’s Waltham, in this county, where many sand-martins nestle and breed⟳ in the scaffold-holes of the back-wall of William of Wykeham’s stables:”
“The position was perched on a sort⟳ of razor-back of limestone with dug-outs driven horizontally into the cliff like⟳ sand-martins’ nests.”
“The sandmartins’ nests were loopholes of darkness in the riverbank.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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