Obs. A kind of sea-gull.
c. 1475. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 761. Hec alcedo, a colmow.
[Perh. an error for *colmew, or repr. an OE. *colmáw for *colmǽw, as a comp. of mǽw, ‘alcedo vel alcion,’ ‘larus,’ a sea-mew or gull. It may mean coal- or black-gull; but cf. CALMEWE, prob. the same word, and the forms given in note to COAL-MOUSE.)
