anty-mire

plural anty-mires

1. alternativeAlternative form of antmire (“ant”).

   I could tell you ten things about a bee or an anty-mire—but a goose—I'd 'no though but she do hev some curious ways.

   1887, Mrs. A. E. Anderson Maskell, Children with the Birds, page 320

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   When I was a child I was taught that ants were anty-mires. Probably all country children were taught the same name for the wonderful insect.

   1921, Edward Fuller Bigelow, The Guide to Nature - Volume 13, Issue 12, page 191