Meaning & use
rotch
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A regional British dialect name for the little auk, a small black-and-white seabird of the North Atlantic.
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Fishermen along the northern coast once called the little auk a rotch.
Flocks of rotches gathered on the sea cliffs during the breeding season.
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A regional dialect term, now largely archaic, once used among sailors and coastal communities in Britain.
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little auk
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