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Definition of Gaggling
1. gaggle [v] - See also: gaggle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gaggling
Literary usage of Gaggling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1857)
"... in his " Nature's Secrets," says that when geese " make a gaggling in the air
more than usual. or seem to fight, being over greedy at their meat, ..."
2. The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall, in the by Shuttleworth family, John Harland (1857)
"... in his " Nature's Secrets," says that when geese " make a gaggling in the air
more than usual, or seem to fight, being over greedy at their meat, ..."
3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"... the noise whereof cometh no sooner to their ears than they fall to gaggling,
and hasten to go with him. If it happen that the gates be not yet open, ..."
4. Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed ; with Introductions by Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, William Harrison (1910)
"... the noise whereof cometh no sooner to their ears than they fall to gaggling,
and hasten to go with him. If it happen that the gates be not yet open, ..."
5. Faiths and Folklore: A Dictionary of National Beliefs, Superstitions and by William Carew Hazlitt (1905)
"Sea-mews, early in the morning making a gaggling more than ordinary, foretoken
stormy and blustering weather." ' This superstition was entertained in ..."
6. A History of British Birds by William Yarrell, Alfred Newton, Howard Saunders (1884)
"croaks; then the hundreds of necks rise at once to the full extent, every bird
gaggling its loudest, as they walk obliquely away, looking back over their ..."
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