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ˈroad-goose
Also 9 rode-.
[App. repr. some local form, such as rood-, rudegoose in Ross, or rade-, raid-goose in Orkney and Shetl. All later instances appear to be mere echoes of Willughby.]
= rat-goose.
a1672[see rat-goose]. 1674Ray Coll. Words 95 The road-Goose, or small Wild Goose. 1753Chambers Cycl. Suppl., Road goose, in zoology, the name of a small species of wild goose. 1768–1824 [see rat-goose]. 1894Newton Dict. Birds 793 Rode-goose, a local name given by fowlers to the Brant-Goose. |