witchuck

English

Etymology

Perhaps from witch-chick.

Noun

witchuck (plural witchucks)

1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) The sand martin, or bank swallow.

Further reading

• “witchuck”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “witchuck”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.