solan

Definitions

Examples

• Wild flocks of sea-fowl rose above our heads from off the rock, and among others were numbers of gannets or Solan geese.

• The solan geese here are also great devourers, and are said soon to exhaust all the fish in a pond.

• He had charge, besides, of the solan geese that roosted in the crags; and from these an extraordinary income is derived.

• With these awful weapons we wandered along the beach and fired at the gulls and solan-geese as they passed us.

• There was the relishing Solan goose, whose smell is so powerful that he is never cooked within doors.