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ha-ha-wie
[< Algonk.]
Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a pintail duck.
Quotations
1795
I also observed several flocks of sea-fowl flying about the shores; such as, gulls, black-heads, loons, old wives, ha-ha-wies, dunter geese, arctic gulls, and willicks.
1882
The long-tail (Dafila acuta, Linn.) was obtained from Fort George, and is not uncommon in the interior part of Hudson's Bay where it is called the "hah-wee-a."