Lexicographical Neighbors of Hagdowns
Literary usage of Hagdowns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Labrador by William Brooks Cabot (1920)
"Not many gulls appeared, but beds of shearwaters, locally " hagdowns," and other
kinds, stretched along on both sides at times, and single birds skimmed the ..."
2. A History of British Birds by William Yarrell, Alfred Newton, Howard Saunders (1884)
"... name of hagdowns." It is probable, from what is known of its geographical
distribution, that it is of not unfrequent occurrence off the southern and ..."
3. Labrador: A Sketch of Its Peoples, Its Industries and Its Natural History by Winfrid Alden Stearns (1884)
"... hagdowns or shearwaters, while ducks were plentiful, and the puffins or
paroquets abounded in tens of thousands. Greenley Island, at the entrance of the ..."
4. Labrador: A Sketch of Its Peoples, Its Industries and Its Natural History by Winfrid Alden Stearns (1884)
"I noted several species of gulls and terns, including several jaegers, or what
are often called hagdowns or shearwaters, while ducks were plentiful, ..."
5. Sailing Directions for Nova Scotia, Bay of Fundy, and South Shore of Gulf of by Robert H. Orr, Richardson Clover (1891)
"hagdowns, a species of gull, heavy of night, are seen all across the Atlantic,
but on the banks they become very numerous, as well as divers and other sea ..."
6. Nova Scotia Pilot: Bay of Fundy, Southeast Coast of Nova-Scotia and Coast of by United States Hydrographic Office (1918)
"hagdowns, a species of gulls, heavy of flight, are seen all across the Atlantic,
but on the banks they become very numerous, as well as divers and other sea ..."
7. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission by United States Fish Commission (1883)
"Captain King told me to-day that he has never seen so many birds before in the
Bay of Fundy, such as sea-geese, gan- net, and hagdowns. ..."
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