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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In severe winters, flocks of solan geese, locally denominated "barnacles," frequent the shores.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 396, October 31, 1829 by Various
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."
The origin of the names solan or soland, sulan, sula and haf-sula, which are evidently all closely related, is not so obvious.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
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
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