Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of several different saw-billed birds.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Prov. Eng. The merganser.
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- noun UK the
red-breasted merganser .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges
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Examples
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-- The men had rare and very exciting sport, in coasting around the peninsula, in catching the young of the onzig -- which is the sawbill.
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851
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-- The men had rare and very exciting sport, in coasting around the peninsula, in catching the young of the onzig -- which is the sawbill.
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828
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e.g. sawbill duck, and receives such additional strength that he soon escapes his pursuers (Frazer, "Totemism and Exogamy", III, p. 385).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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