Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The great auk, Alca impennis. See auk and Alca.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) The great auk; also, the razorbill. See auk.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The great auk.
  • noun The razorbill

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Examples

  • Aas says that historically, Firefox has not lost significant market share for dropping previous OS X versions. garefowl, users would be able to continue using Firefox 3.6 until Mozilla discontinues support for that, which is scheduled for several months after the release of the next major Firefox version later this year.

    Macworld 2010

  • Aas says that historically, Firefox has not lost significant market share for dropping previous OS X versions. garefowl, users would be able to continue using Firefox 3.6 until Mozilla discontinues support for that, which is scheduled for several months after the release of the next major Firefox version later this year.

    Macworld 2010

  • Aas says that historically, Firefox has not lost significant market share for dropping previous OS X versions. garefowl, users would be able to continue using Firefox 3.6 until Mozilla discontinues support for that, which is scheduled for several months after the release of the next major Firefox version later this year.

    Macworld 2010

  • Aas says that historically, Firefox has not lost significant market share for dropping previous OS X versions. garefowl, users would be able to continue using Firefox 3.6 until Mozilla discontinues support for that, which is scheduled for several months after the release of the next major Firefox version later this year.

    PCWorld 2010

  • [Footnote: Gairfoul, or garefowl, was another name for the great auk.

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 Charles Herbert Sylvester

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