Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A jäger or skua; especially, the great skua.
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Examples
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Several snow petrels and a skua-gull made attempts to secure the fish, but the afterguard kept up such a chorus of cheers, hoots and howls that the birds were scared away till one of us secured the fish from the floe.
South with Scott Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans Mountevans 1918
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