Tarrock

Tarrock
Tarrock Tar"rock, n. [Greenland tattarock.] (Zo["o]l.) (a) The young of the kittiwake gull before the first molt. (b) The common guillemot. [Prov. Eng.] (c) The common tern. [1913 Webster]

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