(n.) An animal that barks; hence, any one who clamors unreasonably.
(n.) One who stands at the doors of shops to urg/ passers by to make purchases.
(n.) A pistol.
(n.) The spotted redshank.
(n.) One who strips trees of their bark.
Example Sentences:
(1) "While I wouldn't necessarily concur with all the specific recommendations of the report," Barker said, "there is one clear message that I do agree with: that solar has far more potential than has previously been thought."
(2) Most significantly, it has delegated too much to the Bank of England, which next year will for the first time have a governor appointed for an eight-year term, into a very powerful unelected role," Barker said.
(3) The new companies to be given ministerial buddies – but not yet publicly disclosed – include the property firms Atkins and Balfour Beatty, which have been paired with climate change minister Greg Barker, who is overseeing work on the government's green deal and zero-carbon homes programmes.
(4) It was on the set of The Frost Report that production staff began to refer to Barker and Corbett as "the two Ronnies", while the writing team included Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, and Eric Idle – every Monty Python member bar Terry Gilliam – as well as Marty Feldman and lead writer Antony Jay, who went on to create Yes, Minister.
(5) Microgeneration like home wind and solar panels will not be covered by the project, but could be marketed by selling companies alongside the core efficiency measures, said Barker.
(6) The rates "will come down", Barker confirmed when we spoke last week.
(7) Each week, Frost's script, the sketches and topical songs would riff on a single theme - for example class, when John Cleese, Corbett and Barker appeared in one of the most famous sketches in the annals of British comedy.
(8) Barker also announced a new comedy, Nurse, based on the eponymous BBC Radio 4 series.
(9) At the moment the club needs a long term strategy but has an owner with a short term view - Al Reading It’s been one huge wet lettuce of a season Ben Barker, Reading fan It’s been one huge wet lettuce of a season.
(10) Speaking about Bacon, Barker said: “[He] speaks to the soul.
(11) The Shonan Maru No 2 tailed the Bob Barker, a Sea Shepherd vessel, for two days earlier this week, according to the group.
(12) As Greg Barker told me last week , "the focus of the current scheme needs to be on the small scale, to get the maximum number of installations".
(13) It is a far cry from Barker's promise of: "A radical new approach to home energy improvement, moving away from pepper potting individual measures to whole house or property solutions."
(14) He beat his fellow MSP, Richard Barker, and Glasgow city council leader, Gordon Matheson.
(15) Mike Reiss (@MikeReiss) Patriots inactives: DL Sopoaga, CB Green, G Barker, TE Williams, DE Bequette, WR Thompkins, LB Beauharnais.
(16) Energy and climate change minister Greg Barker welcomed an increase in the number of people having their homes assessed for the green deal .
(17) The interim report from the five-strong Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England , chaired by Kate Barker, a former Bank of England economist, has been published as all three main parties decide how to approach the issue of social care in their election manifestos.
(18) Read the biographies - Winifred Gérin, Juliet Barker and, in particular, Lucasta Miller - and you can begin to discern a more formidable woman who could cope with the world rather better than the image of the doomed Emily might suggest.
(19) (1966), worked with Simpson, Arnold Wesker and John Arden , and, having staged Howard Barker ’s Cheek in 1970, collaborated with him in 1986 on the audacious Women Beware Women, adapting Middleton’s Jacobean original with poisonous puritanism.
(20) Following the physiological investigation, the muscle was fixed and stained according to the method of Barker and Ip (J.
Redshank
Definition:
(n.) A common Old World limicoline bird (Totanus calidris), having the legs and feet pale red. The spotted redshank (T. fuscus) is larger, and has orange-red legs. Called also redshanks, redleg, and clee.
(n.) The fieldfare.
(n.) A bare-legged person; -- a contemptuous appellation formerly given to the Scotch Highlanders, in allusion to their bare legs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Almost two-fifths (37%) of England and Wales's lowland snipe, as well as redshank, lapwing and rare black-tailed godwits , have been affected by the adverse weather.
(2) He said snipe, redshank, lapwing, curlew and black-tailed godwit, were all species that had declined rapidly in numbers in recent years.
(3) The land that would be submerged hosts about 68,000 birds in winter, including huge flocks of dunlins and shelducks, together with Bewick's swans, curlews, pintails, wigeons and redshanks.
(4) "There's no reason now that birds like snipe, redshanks and lapwings there shouldn't have a successful summer," an RSPB spokesman said.
(5) The contrast between the man-made and the natural gives the walk a slightly surreal air, as we switch from spotting redshank and lapwings to a first world war submarine tower on the riverbank.
(6) Phil Burston, water policy officer at the RSPB, said: "Wading birds like lapwings, redshanks and avocets rely on shallow pools and boggy marshes.