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plural skylarks
A small brown passerine bird, Alauda arvensis, that sings as it flies high into the air. examples
third-person singular simple present skylarks, present participle skylarking, simple past and past participle skylarked
(dated, originally nautical) To jump about joyfully, frolic; to play around, play tricks. quotations examples
I cherished no malice towards him, though he had been skylarking with me not a little in the matter of my bedfellow.
1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 5