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Oesel

American  
[œ-zuhl] / ˈœ zəl /

noun

  1. German name of Saaremaa.


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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

On Christmas Eve in some parts of the Esthonian island of Oesel they bake a long cake with the two ends turned up.

From The Golden Bough by Frazer, James George, Sir

Many of the Esthonians of the island of Oesel will not eat bread baked of the new corn till they have first taken a bite at a piece of iron.

From The Golden Bough by Frazer, James George, Sir