Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The eiderduck, Somateria mollissima.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.), Scott. A porpoise.
- noun (Zoöl.) the eider duck.
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- noun dialect, Scotland A
porpoise .
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•f biiHls, every large gwimming bird it called goose, with some other vliitiiiguisbingepitbet, thus, ember - goose iVr the great-diver, dunter - goose for the eider-duck, rain - goose for the above, &c. The male and female of tbi» species are constant companions.
Sporting Magazine 1813
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