Definitions for plover

plover plov·er

Spelling: [pluhv-er, ploh-ver]
IPA: /ˈplʌv ər, ˈploʊ vər/

Plover is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 98 anagrams from letters in plover (eloprv).

Definitions for plover

noun

  1. any of various shorebirds of the family Charadriidae. Compare dotterel (def 1), killdeer, lapwing.
  2. any of various similar shorebirds, as the upland plover and other sandpipers.

Origin of plover

1275-1325; Middle English Anglo-French; Old French plovier rainbird Vulgar Latin *pluviārius. See pluvial, -er2

Examples for plover

Raise his legs, wings and his shoulders as a plover, and no sauce but salt.

Upon this were hundreds of wild geese, plover, and pelicans.

She was really ill; her face, indeed, became the colour of a plover's egg.

"A basket of plover's eggs," said the Headman of Half-a-Loaf.

On the way I stumbled on the nest of a plover, with one egg in it.

The plover, indeed, is still with us, but in numbers lessening every year.

"Nothing unusual," replied the colonel, shelling a plover's egg.

The plover, as his cry indicates, is a very melancholy bird.

The engineer, followed by plover and Warren, went down to his post.

Now and again the peep of the prairie chick or the call of the plover came to their ears.

Word Value for plover
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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