Interesting news on the radio this morning: More than a hundred pairs of endangered piping plovers are nestling this summer on local beaches.
Well, it's encouraging that they're *nesting*, but I doubt that any but the nestlings are actually nestling; the parents are much too busy looking for food for the young.
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Re: nestle
Maybe the radio announcer was doing some time travel? Nestle as a verb meaning 'to make a nest' was once a valid word. It's now archaic, though, so... .
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