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whimbrel(dictionary)

jester (iou) and whimbrel (medicine)


jester (iou)



jester noun. Also gester. ME.
[from JEST verb, GEST verb + -ER1.]
A professional reciter of romances. arch. ME.
A mimic, a buffoon; a person whose profession is to amuse; esp. a professional joker or clown maintained in a medieval court etc., a fool. E16.
A person who jests, or speaks or acts in jest; a person given to uttering jests or witticisms, a joker. E16.
jestership noun the position of a jester M19.

whimbrel (medicine)


whimbrel
<zoology> Any one of several species of small curlews, especially the European species (Numenius phaeopus), called also Jack curlew, half curlew, stone curlew, and tang whaup. Hudsonian or, Eskimo, whimbreal, the Hudsonian curlew.

Origin: Cf. Whimper.

Source: Websters Dictionary