goose-wing

Late last month the Barnet Council approved the plan (after agreeing to change the color of the poles from sage green to goose-wing gray) and workmen busied themselves putting up the eruv.

Birds &Amp; Trees, Poles &Amp; String 2007

Ab hoste maligno libera nos, Domine, and ran away in a full flight, as if they had been routed, looking now and then behind them, like a dog that carrieth away a goose-wing in his mouth.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Ab hoste maligno libera nos, Domine, and ran away in a full flight, as if they had been routed, looking now and then behind them, like a dog that carrieth away a goose-wing in his mouth.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

'A goose-wing! why, 'says he,' I can't carry a knot of sail, it blows a storm. '

Notes and Queries, Number 44, August 31, 1850 Various

'Well, well,' says I, 'then you must take a goose-wing.'

Notes and Queries, Number 44, August 31, 1850 Various

A piece of his mast being yet standing, he made what they call a goose-wing sail, that is, a little piece of the sail out, just to keep the boat steddy, and with this we got up as high as

Notes and Queries, Number 44, August 31, 1850 Various

Her masts had long since gone by the board, and upon the stump of the mizzen-stick a bit of canvas like a goose-wing had been spread in the useless endeavor to maintain steerageway.

Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast Frank V. Webster

He hadn't pulled a feather from a goose-wing, or given any one a rude answer; and every morning when calling upon Akka, he had always removed his cap, and bowed.

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils 1922

Where he lay – tucked in under the goose-wing – he could see nothing, and hear only a little; and he thought if any harm were to come to the goosey-gander, he couldn't save him.

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils 1922

I weighed a hundred an 'ninety-seven pounds in the buff an' my chest bulged like a goose-wing tops'l.

Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918