sea-pie

sea-pie (plural sea-pies)

1. Alternative form of sea pie (“food”).
2. Alternative form of sea pie (“bird”).
   • 1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby:

     And the terns hovered over Tom like huge white dragon-flies with black heads, and the gulls laughed like girls at play, and the sea-pies, with their red bills and legs, flew to and fro from shore to shore, and whistled sweet and wild.

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “sea-pie”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
• Smyth, Sailor's Word-Book (1867)