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Stork vs Stirk - What's the difference?

stork | stirk |

As nouns the difference between stork and stirk

is that stork is a large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the family ciconiidae while stirk is (uk|scotland|dialect|dated) a yearling cow; a young bullock or heifer.

stork

English

(Ciconiidae)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the family Ciconiidae.
  • The mythical bringer of babies to familes.

    • Derived terms

    * (black-necked stork) * (giant stork) * (hair-crested stork) * saddle-billed stork * storky

    See also

    * crane * egret * heron

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    stirk

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, Scotland, dialect, dated) A yearling cow; a young bullock or heifer.
  • *1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 20:
  • *:he could stop a running stirk by the horns, so strong he was in the wrist-bones.

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