titlark

[ tit-lahrk ]

noun

1. any of several small, larklike birds, especially a pipit.

titlark

/ ˈtɪtˌlɑːk /

noun

1. another name for the pipit, esp the meadow pipit ( Anthus pratensis )

Word History and Origins

Origin of titlark¹

First recorded in 1660–70; tit ¹ + lark ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of titlark¹

C17: from tit ¹+ lark ¹

Example Sentences

Such a habit could hardly fail to become hereditary, so that the daughter of a cuckoo which always put her egg into a reed-wren’s, titlark’s or wagtail’s nest would do as did her mother.

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Titlark, tit′l�rk, n. a titling, a pipit.

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Pipit, pip′it, n. a genus of birds resembling larks in plumage and wagtails in habits, the most common British species being the titlark.

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All through the long dark winter the wren and titlark sing cheerfully.

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The 'mouse's brother' the Baby will call the Faroe wren, and she will know one fact of which grave scientists are ignorant, that the 'mouse's brother' and the titlark sing a bird-translation of a verse from the old Kingos Psalm-book.

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