Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Another spelling of
gare-fowl .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) See
garefowl .
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- noun Alternative form of
garefowl .
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Examples
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And then we shall not be sorry because we cannot get a Gairfowl to stuff, much less find gairfowl enough to drive them into stone pens and slaughter them, as the old Norsemen did, or drive them on board along a plank till the ship was victualled with them, as the old English and French rovers used to do, of whom dear old Hakluyt tells: but we shall remember what Mr. Tennyson says: how
The Water Babies 2007
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And then we shall not be sorry because we cannot get a Gairfowl to stuff, much less find gairfowl enough to drive them into stone pens and slaughter them, as the old Norsemen did, or drive them on board along a plank till the ship was victualled with them, as the old English and French rovers used to do, of whom dear old
The Water-Babies A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby Charles Kingsley 1847
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And then we shall not be sorry because we cannot get a Gairfowl to stuff, much less find gairfowl enough to drive them into stone pens and slaughter them, as the old
The Water-Babies Charles Kingsley 1847
treeseed commented on the word gairfowl
Also garefowl
Another name for the now extinct Great Auk
January 30, 2008
treeseed commented on the word gairfowl
An important character in Charles Kingsley's novel, Water Babies, 1937, is the Last of the Gairfowl, an ancient female Great Auk who advises Tom on his journey.
January 30, 2008