Assertion: nightjar | /r/CapableOf | suck milk
Facets:
value: from goats
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: ’ teats
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: at night
type: TEMPORAL
value: hence the name
type: OTHER
value: from dairy goats
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Caprimulgus is derived from the Latin capra, "nanny goat", and mulgere, "to milk", referring to an old myth that nightjars suck milk from goats, and the species name, europaeus is Latin for "European".
text: They are sometimes called goatsuckers, due to the ancient folk tale that they sucked the milk from goats (the Latin for goatsucker is Caprimulgus), or bugeaters, their primary source of food being insects.
text: In the olden days people used to think nightjars snuck into barns at night and suckled milk from dairy goats.
text: People used to believe that nightjars found sleeping goats and drank their milk.
text: It seems that the goatsucker is the most audacious of creatures, for it despises small birds but assails goats with the utmost violence, and more than that, it flies to their udders and sucks out the milk without any fear of vengeance from the goatherd, although it makes the basest return for being filled with milk, for it makes the dug ' blind' and staunches its flow.
text: Nightjars are sometimes referred to as goatsuckers from the mistaken belief that they suck milk from goats (the latin for goatsucker is Caprimulgus).
text: It was believed that they sucked milk from goats' udders and caused them to dry up; hence their family name, Caprimulgidae, from the Latin capri and mulgus, meaning "goat-milker.
text: They are sometimes referred to as goatsuckers from the mistaken belief that they suck milk from goats (the Latin for goatsucker is Caprimulgus).
text: Nightjars are sometimes referred to as goatsuckers from the mistaken belief that they suck milk from goats (the Latin for goatsucker is Caprimulgus).
text: Those names are based on an ancient myth that nightjars sucked milk from goats at night.
text: Nightjars are sometimes referred to as goatsuckers from the mistaken belief that they suck milk from goats (the Latin for goatsucker is Caprimulgus).
text: Nightjars are sometimes referred to as goatsuckers from the mistaken belief that they suck milk from goats (the Latin for goatsucker is Caprimulgus).
text: Nightjars are sometimes referred to as goatsuckers from the mistaken belief that they suck milk from goats (the Latin for goatsucker is Caprimulgus).
text: They are sometimes referred to as goatsuckers from the mistaken belief that they suck milk from goats (the Latin for goatsucker is Caprimulgus).
text: In ancient folklore it was believed that the nightjar would suck the milk from goats’ teats, hence the name
text: They are sometimes called goatsuckers, due to the ancient folk tale that they sucked the milk from goats (the Latin for goatsucker is Caprimulgus).
text: They are sometimes called goatsuckers, due to the ancient folk tale that they sucked the milk from goats, some New World species are called nighthawks.
text: This name comes from ancient folklore that the nightjar sucked the milk from goats’ teats.
text: They are sometimes called goatsuckers, due to the ancient folk tale that they sucked the milk from goats (the Latin for goatsucker is Caprimulgus).