Definitions for "Plover"
Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds belonging to the family Charadridæ, and especially those belonging to the subfamily Charadrinsæ. They are prized as game birds.
Any grallatorial bird allied to, or resembling, the true plovers, as the crab plover (Dromas ardeola); the American upland, plover (Bartramia longicauda); and other species of sandpipers.
a shore bird with a short tail, long pointed wings, and brown or gray feathers mixed with white.
Plover is a lightweight framework that defines a complete delivery channel including a communication layer with hosting and invocation environments. Plover abstracts request-response in client-server interaction as method invocation on remote entities.
plover.net, a site currently maintained by Peter Seebach that hosts a lot of MUDders' pages.