seamews

Noun

seamew (plural seamews)

1. The common gull (Larus canus).
   • Now dance the lights on lawn and lea,
     The flocks are whiter down the vale,
     And milkier every milky sail
     On winding stream or distant sea;
     Where now the seamew pipes, or dives
     In yonder greening gleam, and fly
     The happy birds, that change their sky
     To build and brood1849, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H., canto CXV