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échoueries
< Cdn F < F échouer run aground
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n.pl
rocky slopes on shore where walruses haul out.
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1784
The Echoueries, are formed principally by nature, being a gradual slope of soft rock, with which the Magdalene islands abound, about eighty or a hundred yards wide at the waterside, and spreading so as to contain, near the summit, a very large number of these animals.
1862
At length the sea cows in the front are driven up the back as far so far in the echourie, that the last of them, then assembled has sufficient room to rest, when they usually sleep, if not disturbed.
1966
Molineux Shuldham [1775] has left a full account of . . . the échoueries or hauling out sites. . . .