Citations:ottery

English citations of ottery

Adjective: "of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an otter"

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• 1985, Ralph Burns, Any Given Day, University of Alabama Press (1985), →ISBN, page 45:

  And a photograph, too, of an otter,

  two maybe, three,

  an ottery tangle.

• 1991, BBC Wildlife, page 236:

  Anyone who has watched, for example, a litter of otter cubs rolling about in an ottery tangle can hardly doubt that they're really having fun.

• 1994, Bobby Tullock, Otters, Colin Baxter Photography (1994), →ISBN, page 9:

  The three animals lay entwined in an 'ottery tangle', the only movement came from their gentle breathing.

• 1996, Albert Goldbarth, Adventures in Ancient Egypt: Poems, Ohio State University Press (1996), →ISBN, page 23:

  […] this guy she's seen before with the . . . ferret? or mongoose? ... an ottery thing, whatever, on a clothesline leash. . . .

• 2006, David Kavanagh, A Country Pillow Book, Dram Books (2006), →ISBN, page 248:

  Otters are the subject of a special event being held at the National Film Theatre in London.

  Organised in association with The Wildlife Trusts, young wildlife enthusiasts will have the chance to discover 'otterly' fascinating facts from an ottery expert and then see the animal in action in 'Tarka the Otter'.

• 2006, Hans Kruuk, Otters: Ecology, Behaviour, and Conservation, Oxford University Press (2006), →ISBN, page 79:

  Spraints consist mostly of food remains, such as fish bones, to which are added the fairly inconspicuous secretions of two anal glands, situated along the gut close to the anus; they produce the 'ottery' smell.