>To: Tweeters
>From: "William H. Lawrence" <whl at Localaccess.com>
>Subject: Mudlark
>
>We now have a new slippery thread to slide along--Mudlark (one word ) From
the Oxford English Dictionary. Several meanings they are:
>
> Hog -slang
> One who dabbles in mud- colloq gutter children
> Metro Police ( London) _ because they muck around in mud at low tides
> in connection with crime.
> Royal Engineers
>
> Various Birds---
>
> a kind of pipit
> skylark--Alauda arvensis
> Australian Magpie-lark --Grallina picata
> builds mud nest
>
> mud-dipper ruddy duck
> mud hen = moor hen, 3 species of USA Rails and
> the Coot
>
> No mention of the meadow lark but that nickname
could be strictly american slang
>
> Bill
>