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hagdon

English

Alternative forms

  • hag, hagdown, haglin, hagden

Etymology

Unknown. Compare later haglet (shearwater, petrel). Attested (as hagden) from the 17th century.

Noun

hagdon (plural hagdons)

  1. (regional, now rare) One of several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus, especially, Ardenna gravis (syn. Puffinus gravis, Puffinus major), the great shearwater, and Puffinus stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater.

References

  • hagdon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Puffinus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
  • “hagden, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2016
  • hagdon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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hackbolt

English

Noun

hackbolt (plural hackbolts)

  1. (archaic, Scilly Isles) The greater shearwater or hagdon.

Anagrams

  • hat block

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