killdee

American  

[kil-dee] / ˈkɪl di /

noun

Dialect.

1. killdeer.

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Example Sentences

Oh, dim and wan came in the dawn, And gloomy closed the day; The killdee whistled among the weeds, The heron flapped in the river reeds, And the snipe piped far away.

From Shapes and Shadows by Cawein, Madison J.

Below us a stone mill grumbled over its unending task, and from the meadows came the blithe call of the killdee.

From David Malcolm by Lloyd, Nelson

But when I at's him ag'in, to lock legs or kick ankles, dar he's 'way off yander, a-tippin' it on his toes, like a killdee.

From Burl by Heady, Morrison

The blackbirds jangle in the tops Of hoary-antlered sycamores; The timorous killdee starts and stops Among the drift-wood on the shores.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

That's all right," he continued, as the son closed in on me: "I kin handle the little killdee by myself....

From Fibble, D.D. by Sarg, Tony