plover

Syllables: plov·er/ˈplʌvə/US/ˈplʌvɚ/

plover noun: any of various wading birds of the subfamily Charadriinae.

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Noun

plover (plural plovers or plover)

Any of various wading birds of the subfamily Charadriinae.
(Australia) A masked lapwing (Vanellus miles).

Verb

plover (third-person singular simple present plovers, present participle plovering, simple past and past participle plovered)

To dote over, or, crowd or nestle with
- Invisible twine plying merchants are unravelling the long grasses and the plovering pull of the long windstrewngrasses pluck the prince in his chest his heart his passion and love as if no tomorrow.1997, Barry MacSweeney, The Book of Demons, page 107
- I would blanch, I would quail and, maybe in that season, I would have plovered — plovered my head deep into my feathers and plovered away on thin, wading bird's legs.2000, Stuart Jeffries, Mrs Slocombe's Pussy: Growing Up in Front of the Telly, page 144
To hunt for plover.
- Gentlemen often came from Dublin, and payed me for going into the Channel with them a plovering and fishing, and going aboard of Ships in the Bay; but once among the rest, some of these Chaps came to hire my Smack, to go into the Bay, which I let them have to my Sorrow;1769, John Poulter, The Discoveries of John Poulter, Alias Baxter, page 5
- There is a handsome prospect from the plains, which render very good shooting in the season of plovering.1865, Henry Onderonk, Queens County in Olden Times, page 87
To wade along the shore, examining the sand like a plover does.
- Men with nothing to do plovered the sand - edge with clam rakes that raked nothing.1971, John Ciardi, Lives of X., page 50
- Blathwyte indicates the scale of another population of waders through recording an annual crop of 250 Lapwing eggs Vanellus vanellus being taken by 'plovering' gamekeepers.2021, Clive Chatters, Heathland

Proper noun capitalized: Plover

Plover

A minor city in Pocahontas County, Iowa, United States, named for the bird.
A town in Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States.
A town and village in Portage County, Wisconsin.

plover meaning in Tamil, Telugu, Indonesian and Vietnamese

plover in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும் பறவைகளில், இது ஒரு சிறப்பு இனமாகும்

plover in Telugu

wading bird of the family Charadriidae: ఉల్లంకి ullaṅki

plover in Indonesian

wading bird of the family Charadriidae: cerek

plover in Vietnamese

wading bird of the family Charadriidae: choi choi

Examples of plover in a sentence

Our Dove's a fat man's tits plovering a T - shirt;2002, Calvin Bedient, The Violence of the Morning: Poems, page 42:
Brisler went Yesterday a plovering with a Party who killed about an hundred.1962, Diary and Autobiography of John Adam, page 244:
If we can let the plovers do their plovering thing, then perhaps, instead of rejecting our human weirdnesses, we embrace them.2021, Jeffrey Cohen, Stephanie Foote, The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities, page 282:

All 14 example sentences with plover

Forms of plover

Noun
plural	plovers
plural	plover
Verb
third-person singular present	plovers
present participle	plovering
past participle	plovered
past	plovered

Plural of plover: plovers or plover

Origin of plover

Inherited from Middle English plover, from Anglo-Norman plover, plovier, from Medieval Latin plovarius, pluviārius, of disputed origin; perhaps from Latin pluvia (“rain”).

Words formed from plover

Phrases with plover

common ringed plover

Words that rhyme with plover

Questions about plover

What does plover mean?: Plover means any of various wading birds of the subfamily Charadriinae.
What is plover in Tamil?: Plover in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும் பறவைகளில், இது ஒரு சிறப்பு இனமாகும். See Plover meaning in Tamil.
How do you use plover in a sentence?: Our Dove's a fat man's tits plovering a T - shirt;
What part of speech is plover?: Plover can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce plover?: Plover is pronounced /ˈplʌvɚ/ (US).
What is the plural of plover?: The plural of plover is plovers.

Words near plover in the dictionary

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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