Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The white-winged or velvet scoter, sea-coot, or surf-duck, Œdemia fusca deglandi: so called along the Atlantic coast of the United States.
  • noun The chaffinch, Fringilla cœlebs: so called from the white bands on the wing.

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

  • noun The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing.
  • noun The velvet duck.

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

  • noun The chaffinch.
  • noun The velvet scoter.

Etymologies

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white +‎ wing

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