DCHP-3

shoreyer

[ < shore + -yer; cf. liveyere; see 1957 quote]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n. — Nfld

the eider duck, Somateria mollissima.

Quotations

1958
Coombs and Rex reached the island without mishap and immediately loaded their guns and went after the salt water ducks or "shoriers," killing twenty in a very short time.
1959
Common Eider [is also called] shoreyer (As frequenting the shore. "Labr.")