plovered

Verb

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

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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

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