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peterel

peterel is the archaic form of petrel.

Meaning of petrel

Noun

petrel (plural petrels)

  1. Any of various species of black, grey, or white seabirds in the order Procellariiformes.
    • The seventh of May following, we first saw many Birds in bignesse of Cliffe Pidgeons, and after divers other as Pettrels, Cootes, Hagbuts, Pengwins, Murres, Gannets, Cormorants, Guls, with many else in our English Tongue of no name.1625, Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas his Pilgrimes, The Relation of Captaine GOSNOLS Voyage to the North part of Virginia, begunne the sixe and twentieth of March, Anno 42....

Forms of peterel

pluralpeterels

Questions about peterel

What is peterel the archaic form of?
Peterel is the archaic form of petrel.

Words near peterel in the dictionary

  1. Peterburg
  2. Peterchurch
  3. Peterculter
  4. petered
  5. petered out
  6. peterel
  7. peterels
  8. peterero
  9. petereroes
  10. petereros
  11. Petergof

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