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Sea gull   /si gəl/   Listen
Sea gull

noun
1.
Mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs.  Synonyms: gull, seagull.






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"Sea gull" Quotes from Famous Books



... an aeroplane at an angle of three to five degrees to each other is perhaps the oldest way of securing lateral balance. This way readily occurs to anyone who watches a sea gull soaring. The theory of the dihedral angle is that when one wing is lifted by a gust of wind, the air is spilled from under it; while the other wing, being correspondingly depressed, presents a greater resistance to the gust and is lifted restoring the balance. ...
— Flying Machines - Construction and Operation • W.J. Jackman and Thos. H. Russell

... town must be at this same minute! We felt sorry for the people who had to stay there. We had only the clean white hull of the boat between us and the sparkling water of the bay. Toward the sky the great white sail of our boat soared up, like the wing of a giant sea gull, and we went forward as easily and smoothly as one of the gulls who were gliding through the air, and dipping to the water a few hundred yards ahead of us. The grass covered river-banks were far astern now, and the only ...
— The Voyage of the Hoppergrass • Edmund Lester Pearson



Words linked to "Sea gull" :   mew, mew gull, black-backed gull, Larus argentatus, Larus canus, cob, pewit gull, kittiwake, ivory gull, laughing gull, seagull, herring gull, larid, sea mew, gull, blackcap, pewit, great black-backed gull, Pagophila eburnea, Larus marinus, Larus ridibundus



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