2. Verb. (third-person singular of gaggle) ¹
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Definition of Gaggles
1. gaggle [v] - See also: gaggle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gaggles
Literary usage of Gaggles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Wild-fowler: A Treatise on Ancient and Modern Wild-fowling, Historical by Henry Coleman Folkard (1864)
"When the weather is very windy they fly low, and hover about the coast in large
gaggles, frequently passing within fair shot of the beach-gunner. ..."
2. Practical Hints on Shooting: Being a Treatise on the Shot Gun and Its by Basil Tozer (1887)
"He is fairly plentiful in the south of Ireland, and in the lower part of Munster
large flocks, or " gaggles," as they are technically termed, are frequently ..."
3. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1842)
"No writer now dare say the crowe is blacke, For cruell kytes will crave the cause
and why: A faire white goose bears feathers on her backe, That gaggles ..."
4. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1916)
"... broods combine to form flocks; and from this moment the geese no longer fall
such an easy prey to the fowler. Such gaggles feed in the corn-fields, ..."
5. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederic Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"winter ; the note, often syllabled " honk-honk," is at times almost a cackle,
whence the flocks or " skeins" are called " gaggles. ..."
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