Obs. Also 5 caldmaw. [Deriv. uncertain; possibly f. cald, COLD + MEW (Sc. maw) a gull. Cf. COLMOW.] Some sea-fowl; perhaps the Winter Mew, or Gull in its immature plumage.
c. 1430. Lydg., Min. Poems (1840), 202. The semewe … Nor the caldmawe, nouthir fat nor lene.
14[?]. Piers of Fullh., 356, in Hazl., E. P. P., II. 15. The lampwynkes and thise calmewes That sweme on wawes whan it flowes, And som tyme on the sondis gone.
