stranger

Nfld, Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a species of duck.

Quotations

1776

We brought in a beaver, a goose, a bottle-nosed diver, five ducks, four strangers, and three hundred and seventeen eggs.

1777

After breakfast I went in a skiff with two hands round the harbour, took up all the traps, and shot two strangers.