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With him we make the fall fishery and shoot our winter's supply of waveys and southward-flying cranes.

From The New North by Cameron, Agnes Deans

In the autumn, wonderful hunts are made of the southward-flying cranes, geese, and waveys, thousands of these great birds being killed and salted and put in ice chambers for winter use.

From The New North by Cameron, Agnes Deans

Flocks of wild geese, principally the waveys, a very much smaller variety than the great grey geese, were quite numerous, as well as an occasional one of the larger kinds.

From Winter Adventures of Three Boys by Laughlin, J. E.

When we leave Chipewyan August 17th, the fall hunt of waveys has already begun.

From The New North by Cameron, Agnes Deans