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honker†
[< the cry made by this bird]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a kind of large gray goose, Branta canadensis, with a black head and neck and white cheek patches.
See: Canada goose
Quotations
1896
There are four kinds of geese: the "honker," or Canadian gray goose; a smaller gray goose; a large white goose, no quite so large as the "honker"; and a smaller white goose.
1963
Four honkers swung in from the bay and followed the coastline past our blind. . . .