yakamik

1 definition found

yakamik - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Trumpeter \Trump"et*er\, n.
     1. One who sounds a trumpet.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. One who proclaims, publishes, or denounces.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              These men are good trumpeters.        --Bacon.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. (Zool.)
        (a) Any one of several species of long-legged South
            American birds of the genus Psophia, especially
            Psophia crepitans, which is abundant, and often
            domesticated and kept with other poultry by the
            natives. They are allied to the cranes. So called from
            their loud cry. Called also agami, and yakamik.
        (b) A variety of the domestic pigeon.
        (c) An American swan (Olor buccinator) which has a very
            loud note.
            [1913 Webster]
  
     4. (Zool.) A large edible fish (Latris hecateia) of the
        family Cirrhitidae, native of Tasmania and New Zealand.
        It sometimes weighs as much as fifty or sixty pounds, and
        is highly esteemed as a food fish.
        [1913 Webster]