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Quotation dates: 1876
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¶PLECK-PLECK, interj. The cry of the oyster-catcher, Haematopus ostralegus.Bnff. 1876 S. Smiles Naturalist 125:
By the sea-side, he would hear by night . . . the pleck-pleck of the oyster-catcher, as they came down from their breeding-grounds to the shore.
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