bull ((2))

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the dovekie, Alle alle; little auk.

Quotations

1774

This day we saw the first penguins and several bulls.

1779

Both myself and others have often found some of these birds, terns, and bulls dead upon the ice, or land, at a great distance from water.

1959

Dovekie [is also called] Bull (Said to refer to its thick neck, but may have ironical reference also to its small size. "Labr."). . . .