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A Dictionary of English Folklore
... . It is said in coastal areas that the souls of drowned sailors and fishermen may become seagulls, and that therefore these birds should never be killed; the belief is fairly widely known nowadays, but the first record given by Opie and Tatem ( 1989 : 345–6) is only from 1878 . Occasionally gulls are linked with death in a more general way; in the 1970s a Sussex woman commented that some had swooped into her garden ‘as a warning’ on the day her sick mother died...
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A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms (5 ed.)
... 1 In Qld, the Wynnum-Manly RL club 1979 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 5 Mar. 14: Seagulls in fighting comeback [heading] Wynnum-Manly’s team of country youngsters staged a determined comeback to power their way to a 13–9 win over Valleys at Neumann Oval yesterday. 2 In Tas., the former Sandy Bay Australian Rules club 1980 Mercury (Hobart) 21 Apr. 22: Gulls saw it slip away...
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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4 ed.)
...Seagulls Formed in Nigeria, this group, led by Prince David Bull, made their name as the backing band to highlife artist Rex Lawson . When Lawson died in 1976, his Lagos-based sidemen continued in his absence, renaming themselves the Professional Seagulls. They disappointed few familiar with Lawson’s sweet vocal stamp, remaining firmly in the highlife tradition despite its near disappearance following the increased popularity of fuji and juju music. They managed one hit in the early 80s, ‘Soko Soko’, and have remained active since. ALBUMS People’s...
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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4 ed.)
.... After a number of further gigs in 2004 the other members retired from music once more, leaving Mike Score to carry on playing as A Flock Of Seagulls with a new line-up. ALBUMS A Flock Of Seagulls (Jive 1982) ٭ ٭ ٭ Listen (Jive 1983) ٭ ٭ ٭ The Story Of A Young Heart (Jive 1984) ٭ ٭ Dream Come True (Jive 1986) ٭ ٭ The Light At The End Of The World (Sava 1995) ٭ ٭ COMPILATIONS The Best Of A Flock Of Seagulls (Jive 1987) ٭ ٭ ٭ 20 Classics Of The ’80s (Emporio 1995) ٭ ٭ ٭ Greatest Hits Remixed (Cleopatra 1999) ٭ ٭ ٭ Platinum & Gold Collection (Jive...
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The Handbook of International Financial Terms
... . Low- or zero-cost option combination or strategy which involves the simultaneous purchase of a call and the sale of an out-of-the-money call and a put (cf. zero-cost option ). The intention is to reduce the cost of holding a position while at the same time providing a suitable degree of performance. The need to write two options is therefore necessary since out-of-the-money options tend to be worth less in terms of premium than the near or at-the-money option that is purchased. (a) Payoff of a bullish seagull at expiry (b) Payoff...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Plays (2 ed.)
...in the central role. Just as he feared, his mother has no understanding for ‘new forms’, and in a temper he ends the performance. The next day Treplev tries to impress Nina by presenting her with a seagull he has shot. Trigorin comes and flirts with the starstruck Nina, saying he will write a story about a young girl who is arbitrarily destroyed like the seagull. Treplev is so desperate that he tries to shoot himself but only wounds himself in the head. Arkadina and Trigorin are leaving, so Trigorin, with whom Nina is now in love, arranges to meet her in...
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A Dictionary of Superstitions
... AND STORMY PETREL 1878 A. MACGREGOR Brahan Seer 31 ‘Superstitions of Highlanders’ Sailors … greatly dread the stormy petrel, or Mother Carey's chickens, as they flutter at night around their masts and yards. These birds are regarded as objects of superstitious fear, believing that they are possessed of supernatural agency in creating danger for the … mariner. 1885 Folklore 306. In Macduff and Pennan [Aberdeen.] it is believed that the seagulls cry before any disaster. 1886 Folklore 14 [Portessie, Banff.] It is unlucky to catch a sea-gull when...
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The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History (2 ed.)
... V (Walrus), Supermarine (3-crew reconnaissance seaplane). Wingspan 45 feet 10 inches; length 37 feet 7 inches; armament 2 × 0.303-inch machine guns; maximum speed 135 m.p.h.; range 600 miles; power 1 × Bristol Pegasus 775 h.p. engine. The Seagull V was specifically designed to be flown from RAN cruisers. Twenty-four were delivered between 1935 and 1937 . The RN then decided to order the same aircraft but called it the Walrus. Thirty-seven additional aircraft from the British order were delivered to Australia between 1939 and 1944 and they retained...
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New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary (2 ed.)
... • annul , cull, dull, gull, hull, lull, mull, null, scull, skull, Solihull, trull, Tull • seagull • multihull • monohull • numbskull •...
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The Oxford Dictionary of New Zealandisms
... (also Australian ) informal • noun a casual, non-union waterside worker. • verb (often as seagulling noun ) work as a casual watersider. 1984 marshall Day Hemingway Died The union men were the aristocracy of the shift; anyone else was a seagull , no matter how regular. The wharfies kept jobs like tally-clerk and winchman to themselves. 2005 marshall Watch of Gryphons The three of them had met as casuals at the woolstores, but more recently seagulled on the Lyttelton...
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The New Oxford Dictionary for Scientific Writers and Editors (2 ed.)
... (one word) Avoid: use ‘gull’ for unidentified species; qualify this when the species is known (e.g. herring gull, black-backed...
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Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable (2 ed.)
... . The nickname of the Moroccan footballer Abdeslam Ouaddou ( b.1978 ) while at Fulham FC, from the punning line ‘Ouaddou like to be beside the...
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A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms (5 ed.)
... 1 A casual wharf labourer [NZ c. 1926 AND] [from the bird’s habit of waiting for and swooping on scraps] 1965 Frank Hardy The Yarns of Billy Borker 115: He was a casual wharfie at the time I’m telling you about … and they call casuals ‘seagulls’. 1983 Merv Lilley Git Away Back! 291: There was about twenty-eight dockies inside, and a handful of ‘seagulls’ outside the gates. 1994 Sunday Age (Melbourne) 10 Apr. Life 2: Seagull : Flight attendant who doesn’t regularly fly because they are on the ‘reserve list’. see also sniper 2 See quot. 2005 ...
