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hagdon

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

  • noun (Zoöl.) One of several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus; esp., Puffinus major, the greater shearwarter, and Puffinus Stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater; -- called also hagdown, haglin, and hag. See shearwater.

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  • noun One of several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus, especially, P. major, the greater shearwarter, and P. stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater.

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Examples

  • Toygan means 'falcon, hawk'; toynak 'hoof'; tirnak 'claw'; tirmiklamak 'to rake, harrow'; tay 'colt' - which trots us off to English hagdon, haggard, haglet, harrier, and hawk.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 4 1981

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variants (4)

Variants

  1. hag
  2. hagdown
  3. haglin
  4. shearwater

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  • reesetee commented on the word hagdon

    Obsolete name for the Sooty and Greater Shearwater.

    December 7, 2007