gray plover

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.(Zool.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds belonging to the family Charadrid[ae], and especially those belonging to the subfamily Charadrins[ae]. They are prized as game birds. [1913 Webster]

2.(Zool.) Any grallatorial bird allied to, or resembling, the true plovers, as the crab plover (Dromas ardeola); the American upland, plover (Bartramia longicauda); and other species of sandpipers. [1913 Webster]

Note: Among the more important species are the blackbellied plover or blackbreasted plover (Charadrius squatarola) of America and Europe; -- called also gray plover, bull-head plover, Swiss plover, sea plover, and oxeye; the golden plover (see under Golden); the ring plover or ringed plover (Aegialitis hiaticula). See Ringneck. The piping plover (Aegialitis meloda); Wilson's plover (Aegialitis Wilsonia); the mountain plover (Aegialitis montana); and the semipalmated plover (Aegialitis semipalmata), are all small American species. [1913 Webster]

Bastard plover (Zool.), the lapwing.

Long-legged plover, or yellow-legged plover. See Tattler.

Plover's page, the dunlin. [Prov. Eng.]

Rock plover, or Stone plover, the black-bellied plover. [Prov. Eng.]

Whistling plover. (a) The golden plover. (b) The black-bellied plover. [1913 Webster] Plow