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Wiktionary

  1. puttocknoun

    Any of several birds of prey including the red kite, buzzard or marsh harrier

  2. puttocknoun

    The futtock

  3. Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps representing an unattested Old English *.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Puttocknoun

    A buzzard.

    Etymology: derived, by John Minsheu, from buteo, Lat.

    Who finds the partridge in the puttock’s nest,
    But may imagine how the bird was dead. William Shakespeare.

    The next are those, which are called birds of prey, as the eagle, hawk, puttock, and cormorant. Henry Peacham.

Wikipedia

  1. puttock

    Christopher Francis Puttock (born 1954), often cited as C.F.Puttock, is an Australian botanist and taxonomist who has interests in the Rubiaceae and Asteraceae flowering plant families as well as Pteridophyta (ferns) and Rhodophyta (red algae).

Webster Dictionary

  1. Puttocknoun

    the European kite

  2. Puttocknoun

    the buzzard

  3. Puttocknoun

    the marsh harrier

  4. Puttocknoun

    see Futtock

  5. Etymology: [Cf. Pout a young bird, Poult.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Puttock

    pōōt′ok, n. (Shak.) a kite, a buzzard.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. puttock

    A cormorant; a ravenous fellow.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of puttock in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of puttock in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

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