solan
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of solan
1400–50; late Middle English soland < Old Norse sūla gannet + ǫnd duck
Example Sentences
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Yonder, where the gulls are screaming and diving, with here and there a solan goose and a cormorant in the midst of the flock, must be a patch of the smaller fry.
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It might be a diver or a solan goose with outspread wings, but it looked too large.
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It pastures a few sheep, and is a great breeding-place of solan geese.
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We will feel the fresh wind blowing in the canvas, and the salt spindrift in our faces, and the boat going as if she were a solan flying for the rock.”
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The voice of him was like a solan’s and dinnled in folk’s lugs, and the words of him like coals of fire.
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