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Definition of Hoverers
1. hoverer [n] - See also: hoverer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoverers
Literary usage of Hoverers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shooting on Upland, Marsh, and Stream: A Series of Articles Written by by William Bruce Leffingwell (1890)
"These stool-pigeons were known as flyers or hoverers. ... To interest them still
more, the strings attached to the hoverers would be pulled, their pedestals ..."
2. Shooting on Upland, Marsh, and Stream: A Series of Articles Written by by William Bruce Leffingwell (1890)
"These stool-pigeons were known as flyers or hoverers. ... To interest them still
more, the strings attached to the hoverers would be pulled, their pedestals ..."
3. The Norfolk Broads by William Alfred Dutt (1903)
"... be let out on hire to florists and others whose rare cuttings and bulbs are
attacked by plant- lice. Two very common hoverers throughout the Broads are ..."
4. The Singing Man: A Book of Songs and Shadows by Josephine Preston Peabody (1911)
"Gulls, starlings, hoverers, Along the meadows and the paling foam, All wings of
thine that roam Fly down, fly down. One reedy murmur blurs The silence of ..."
5. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1864)
"... abounds in some large woods, where the males are most indefatigable hoverers,
the typical confusus is more confined to gardens and meadows. 3. ..."
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