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Oesel

American  
[œ-zuhl] / ˈœ zəl /

noun

  1. German name of Saaremaa.


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It was a fossilized marine scorpion recently found on the island of Oesel in the Baltic Sea.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sea approaches to Leningrad were threatened as German naval and Luftwaffe parties battered their way onto the stubbornly defended Estonian Islands, Oesel, Vormsi and Moon.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Germans still held four Estonian islands blocking the mouth of the Gulf of Riga�the large islands of Dag� and Oesel, the smaller inshore islands of Vormsi and Muhu.

From Time Magazine Archive

On 12 October the Germans landed a force on the island of Oesel, and within a week had overrun that and the other islands at the mouth of the Gulf of Riga.

From A Short History of the Great War by Pollard, A. F. (Albert Frederick)

In some parts of the Esthonian island of Oesel the cake has not the form of a boar, but bears the same name, and on New Year's Day is given to the cattle.

From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Miles, Clement A.