solan
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of solan
1400–50; late Middle English soland < Old Norse sūla gannet + ǫnd duck
Example Sentences
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The precipitous parts are frequented by large flocks of solan geese and other sea birds.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
“It’ll be the mair pleisand a change for the solan geese, then,” quoth Andie drily.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
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.”
From Jan Vedder's Wife by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
It chanced, ye see, that Tam keekit up, and he was awaur of a muckle solan, and the solan pyking at the line.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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