Example sentences for: harnser

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  • The pub is named after a bird common in the Broads, the grey heron Ardea cinerea , known locally as the harnser . We do not mistake it for a hawk, a plasterer's board with a handle underneath (called, interestingly enough, oiseau in French).

  • H. Kirke Swann, in his Dictionary of English and Folk-Names of British Birds (Witherby and Co., 1913, republished by Gale Research Company, Detroit, 1968), gives Hern, Hernshaw, Hernseugh, Hernsew, Harn, Harnser , and Harnsey as names for the Common (Grey) Heron.


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