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Definition of Oldsquaws
1. oldsquaw [n] - See also: oldsquaw
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oldsquaws
Literary usage of Oldsquaws
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1892)
"Off the south side of Nantucket Island the oldsquaws collect in countless ...
An examination of the stomachs of some of those oldsquaws which I shot in the ..."
2. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture edited by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1918)
"... but which are also good food-birds; the finely-flavored ring-necked ducks,
the edible golden-eyes, the rankly-fla- vored oldsquaws and buffleheads, ..."
3. Advanced Guide Canada's Atlantic Provinces by Barbara Radcliffe Rogers, Stillman Rogers (2005)
"At this site you could expect to see common goldeneyes, oldsquaws, red breasted
mergansers, common eiders, scaups, loons, black ducks and Canada geese, ..."
4. Proceedings of the New England Zoölogical Club by New England zoological club, Cambridge (1900)
"In the season of 1912-1913 quite a number of king eiders wintered with the
oldsquaws in the open holes in the ice at the Diomede Islands. ..."
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