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grey goose
The greylag goose.
c1000Ags. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 259/3 Canta [? read ganta], græᵹ gos. c1050Ags. Voc. ibid. 415/31 Gans, greᵹe gos. 1885Swainson Prov. Names Birds 147 Grey⁓lag goose (Anser cinereus)..Also called Grey goose. 1891Doyle White Company I. vi. 113 So we'll drink all together To..the land where the grey goose flew.
b. transf. (See quot.)
1816Scott Bl. Dwarf iv, In the name of wonder, what can he be doing there? ‘Biggin a dry-stane dyke, I think, wi' the grey geese, as they ca' thae great loose stones’.
c. attrib. as grey-goose quill, grey goose weapon (a pen); grey-goose shaft, grey goose wing (an arrow).
1566J. Partridge Plasidas 996 Some from towre with bow in hande the gray-goose wing do sende. 1644Howell Engl. Teares (1645) 173 My next neighbour France (through whose bowels my gray-goose wing flew so oft). 1728Pope Dunc. i. 198 Could Troy be sav'd by any single hand, This grey-goose weapon must have made her stand. 1781C. Johnston John Juniper II. 1 One of the keenest wits who ever wielded grey-goose quill. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles vi. xxii, Forth whistling came the grey-goose wing. |