swan upping

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Swan upping on the Thames, illustration for 1875, Henry Robert Robertson, Life on the upper Thames
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swan upping (countable and uncountable, plural swan uppings)

  1. An annual swan census in Britain in which mute swans on the River Thames are rounded up, caught, marked, and released.
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