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Gannet

noun
1.
Large heavily built seabird with a long stout bill noted for its plunging dives for fish.





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"Gannet" Quotes from Famous Books



... unseemly appendages. Upon being presented with this headgear, Con dutifully assumed it, and went about wearing it for a day or two in a depressed frame of mind. Then he appeared in the morning at the O'Driscolls', cheered, and crested with a remarkably long gannet's feather stuck upright in the crown of his cap, through which he had bored a hole to admit of the insertion. He was resolved to brazen out the matter, so he presently took off his cap, and twirling it round with an unconcerned air as he leaned against the door, said ...
— Strangers at Lisconnel • Barlow Jane
... Gilian pieced it out in fancy by many pages. His situation on the Ramparts was an aid to his imagination, for as he sat there the sea would be sluggishly rolling below or beating in petulant waves and he floated, as it were, between sea and sky, as free from earth's clogging influence as the gannet that ...
— Gilian The Dreamer - His Fancy, His Love and Adventure • Neil Munro


Words linked to "Gannet" :   solant goose, family Sulidae, pelecaniform seabird, solan goose, Sulidae, Sula bassana, booby, solan


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