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单词 settler's clock
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Definition of settler's clock in English:

settler's clock

noun
Australian
  • the noise woke me and, when I inquired, I was told that it was the settler's clock
    another term for kookaburra
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The bird has been not unaptly named the settler's clock.
    • He stirred first in the mornings, roused by the shrieks of the settler's clock.
    • At half-past four, the settler's clock is making merry with the first glimpse of daylight.
    • He was awakened just before dawn by the settler's clock.
    • Early literature commonly refers to the settler's clock.
    • The small settler certainly did not possess a clock, and so the useful song of the kookaburra became known as the settler's clock.
    • It was the loud and discordant noise of the settler's clock, as the bird is called.
    • The old man, laughing, answered, 'That 'eres the settler's clock.'
    • The settler's clock is a strange-looking bird of the goat-sucker tribe.
    • The 'settler's clock' was the white man's name for the kookaburra.

Origin

Early 19th century: from the bird's loud and discordant dawn chorus.
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