Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The American eider-duck, more fully called
Isles of Shoals duck , from a locality off Portsmouth in New Hampshire. See cut undereider-duck .
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Examples
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Continents, and loves to dwell upon the rocky shores of the sea; but in very severe winters, it makes its appearance along the Atlantic coast of the United States, where it receives different names from the gunners -- such as ` black-and-white coot, '` big sea-duck,' ` shoal-duck, 'and
The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North Mayne Reid 1850
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