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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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 Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
It pastures a few sheep, and is a great breeding-place of solan geese.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various
It chanced, ye see, that Tam keeked up, and he was awaur of a muckle solan, and the solan pyking at the line.
There never was the solan made that wroucht as that solan wroucht; and it seemed to understand it's employ brawly, birzing the saft rope between the neb of it and a crunkled jag o' stane.
“Well,” said I, “there can be no bogles here, Neil; for it’s not likely they would fash themselves to frighten solan geese.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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