entermewer

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English

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Etymology

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From enter- +‎ mew +‎ -er, where mew means moult.

Noun

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entermewer (plural entermewers)

  1. A hawk gradually changing the colour of its feathers, usually in its second year.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for entermewer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)