dunter goose

English

Noun

dunter goose (plural dunter geese)

  1. (obsolete) The eider duck.
    • 1701, John Brand, A Brief Description of Orkney […] :
      All sorts of Duck and Drake, Dunter-Geese, Cleck-Geese, Ember-Geese &c. they have as in Orkney

References

dunter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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